You couldn't make it up....

Unbelieveable.

Maybe she was brought up in a house heated to subtropical temperatures? People do get into strange habits. My son lives in NZ and is used to wearing shorts, year round. Last time he was here, he thought it ridiculous that I suggested he wore trousers!

My DD, who is 29, has just bought her first flat. I went round yesterday and the heating is turned down, she was wearing a jumper and has a cosy blanket for sitting in her rocking chair which used to belong to her Granny. She’s always been an old soul and does love winter for the coziness.

What puzzles me, is that with global warming such an immediate problem and so well known and those under 30 being the group that gets so outraged about older people's emission producing habits, they, themselves, make little or no effort to look at how they live and what they can do.

As OP says, more clothes on and turn the thermostat down also switching lights off, drawing curtains, even in double glazed properties, swapping all bulbs for LEDs.

My AC are roughly the same age, but all have an eye on the budget. Including watching their 'footprint'

Your friends daughter obviously doesnt follow Greta, or the news

Well I almost wish the gas supply would shut down for a few days! Then they might think to put some clothes on, realising what 'cold' actually is. We have to remember these youngsters have never known anything but luxury and comfort. They don't remember the old days before central heating. I remember having a coal fire and then we used paraffin heaters. We wore warm clothes in winter.

My thoughts put in a better way M0nica

Chestnut we had just that happen two years ago. Two weeks without gas - in November - and an uncertain supply for the rest of the winter.

We managed with a wood stove and electric appliances. It is worth remembering that gas central heating boilers use electricity as well and the failure of gas or electricity switches the heating off. We are used to both.

I think generalizing about generations and pitting one group against another just isnt helpful. Presumably these young people were raised by our generation so ...

I remember having a coal fire and then we used paraffin heaters

And frosty ferns on the inside of windows!

...and those under 30 being the group that gets so outraged about older people's emission producing habits, they, themselves, make little or no effort to look at how they live and what they can do.
Agreed, did you see the appalling mess they left behind after the 2019 Glastonbury, including tents? Just Google. Truly shocking that young people would care so little for the environment. But then the Insulate Britain mob are all hypocrites, driving around in gas-guzzling cars and with their own houses not insulated. What is wrong with people today, they all talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

I remember ice inside the windows, condensation running down the glass. Going to bed wearing a jumper. Having a tin bath in front of the real fire. It was normal back then. My AC have never known anything like it and that's part of the reason that generation is careless I think. They would not dream of mending a hole in something - they'd rather throw it away. Such a shame we didn't teach them to be frugal because it's their world.

Like it or not the statistics show that it is older people who have the most environmentally conscious lifestyles.
inews.co.uk/news/environment/climate-friendly-habits-recycling-over-55s-plastic-398704.

It may be a generalisation, and obviously doesn't apply to everybody, in either group. But as a generalisation it is accuraate.

We bring our children up, but we all know that once grown they go on to think independently and act differently to us in every way, and while somethings may be attributed to us. many of their attitudes and views go completely against everything we have taught them.

M0nica

What puzzles me, is that with global warming such an immediate problem and so well known and those under 30 being the group that gets so outraged about older people's emission producing habits, they, themselves, make little or no effort to look at how they live and what they can do.

As OP says, more clothes on and turn the thermostat down also switching lights off, drawing curtains, even in double glazed properties, swapping all bulbs for LEDs.

Some
Not all

Galaxy

I think generalizing about generations and pitting one group against another just isnt helpful. Presumably these young people were raised by our generation so ...

Absolutely agree.

Also, competitive “who had it worse” at play.

A generalisation is a 'some', or perhaps a many, not an all. If I had meant all I would have said so.

As it is I have the data to support my case.

I am just having a very childish snigger at "old people's emissions"

The world must be warmer as I now live in the house I was originally brought up in after living in 20+ other houses It has not been updated since the days when I used to wake up with frosty inside windows I have no different heating system bar I have a gas fire where my Nan had an open fire but I ve never ever had a frosty inside window since the last 30 + years I ve been here
I think it’s harsh to tar all the younger generation as your friends daughters habits. NONE of my grandchildren have ‘hot houses’ in fact the two in U.K. have been brought up in a 16* house and feel very over heated if they go into higher ones

GillT57

I am just having a very childish snigger at "old people's emissions"

Excellent!!

I also find the I am greener than you problematic and usually nothing to do with the environment. And if you dig down you find that those who wear an extra jumper have 5 children or fly regularly or whatever.

No-one is pitting one age group against the other. We perfectly understand that younger people have not known hardship and wouldn't expect them to be frugal by nature. But with so many environmental issues in the headlines they should be picking up some good habits along the way. My particular gripe is bottled water. I'm sure they think nothing of buying water in plastic bottles but really need to kick that habit. I dread to think how many plastic water bottles have been thrown out in the last 20 years.

I am having guilt pangs about the clothes I scorched warming them up on aforementioned paraffin stoves.

All my children’s friends have reusable water bottles and have had for years, they buy second hand clothes and have had a very ‘competitive charity shopping’ habit since they were in their teens and they are in their 20s now. They don’t own cars, buy veg etc from the market and mend clothes. I really don’t recognise these profligate over consumers people talk about.

GillT57

I am just having a very childish snigger at "old people's emissions"

Oh Lord yes ?