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Baby Boomers and Bummers

Most Baby Boomers started out hoping to leave life having continued our Great ReGenerativity, our progressively recycling becoming through economic extraction, boundless growth of optimal Win-Wealth is also Win-Health. We are the last generation hoping to autonomously leave more than we have taken in. To give back, to pay forward investment in Earth's cooperative health and safety insurance, re-assurance. In this early post-millennial era, we have a great transitional cultural dissonance between those who continue believing it is merely realistic, rationally nihilistic, to give up on this hopelessly disconnected non-renewable dream, already not accessible to our post-millennial consciousness of internal and external climate pathologies. And, on the other hand, there remain those of relentless active faith that we are here at this time, invested in this transitional moment, increasingly WinWin continuously short- and long-term evolving time to learn from Father Sun and His revolving voice of Wind to balance healthy continuous consumption with wealthy production of renewables; that life is for continuous cooperative reinvestment and not time for ignoring WinLose waste, sub-optimization of energy's continuous potential resources. As we turn from seeking regenerative continuity for the span of one humane natural generation, toward the span of one humane-divine Earth's life span, old territorial WinLose issues, flying under banners of nationalistic patriotism, fade into the waste stream of survival of the bullyist, more continuously renewed by a new Earth Tribal cooperative ownership, a self-with-other WinWin identity nurturing caregiving and receiving, regenerative health as all things not degeneratively hoarding wealth of nations, of individual egos, as this new Left with Right double-binding ego/ecoconsciousness evolves renewably and continuously accessible.

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