I read this piece and found this line.

How the fuck do you actively work to ensure the world’s a more dangerous place for your beautiful little kid?

The Boomers and Gen X (to some extent) have been doing that for a while now. By working very diligently to take away from their own children and grandchildren all the boons and benefits they enjoyed, and doing absolutely nothing about climate change, they’ve made the world more perilous for their own progeny and furthermore increased the likelihood of that danger worsening greatly in the future.

It has been a command performance of bother utter self-absorption and contempt for those they profess to love.

I was looking back through history for similar episodes and I really couldn’t find any. The “Children’s Crusade” is mostly a myth, and other instances don’t involve an entire generation abandoning the next few. Perhaps WWI? But then, those who perpetrated that great atrocity didn’t actually know how bad it’d be. They thought it’d just be a small war of months, not some gruesome affair that lasted years and killed tens of thousands in single battles.

So I think we might be witnessing something fairly unprecedented in history where a generation deliberately consigns its progeny to misery and despair.