— Bruce SterlingBut old people usually seemed pretty embarrassed to bring up such matters right in front of young people. Probably because of the inherent implication that the world’s old people were ecological criminals. Who probably ought to be hauled into court by a transgenerational tribunal and tried for atrocities against the biosphere. Not that old people would ever allow this to happen, though. There were shitloads of old people still running everything all over the world, and they were in no hurry to give up their power, despite the grotesquely stupid things they’d done with it.
Replicated under Fair Use from Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling.