Trump and His Generation Have Declared War on the Planet’s Youth

Greed alone can’t explain obstructionism toward climate change. It’s an annihilating wish to take everything with them when they go.

Timothy Kreider
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8 min readOct 28, 2019

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OOnce, when I was teaching my undergraduate students a class in writing opinion pieces, one of them asked me why adults should care what…

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Timothy Kreider
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Tim Kreider is the author of two essay collections, and a frequent contributor to Medium and The New York Times. He lives in NYC and the Chesapeake Bay area.