The face of the global effort to stop climate change is a young woman, Greta Thunberg, who famously criticized the older generation for not acting to save the environment. "How dare you?" was her refrain in the fiery speech that brought her to public attention. Some Baby Boomers have responded by becoming more strident in their efforts, both here and abroad.
In recent protests in London, organized by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, there were enough older people among the 500 arrested that one BBC anchor called them the "gray greens."
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