How Each Generation Experiences Climate Warming Differently

Our experience of warming defines each generation, from Laura Ingalls Wilder through Generation Alpha.

Figure SPM1 from the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers.

The Xennial generation, a microgeneration sandwiched between Gen X and Millenials, has a few defining characteristics. Computers arrived in classrooms during their childhood. They spent their youth offline but entered adulthood as the technology matured…