You can keep spinning this point, but the fact remains that our collective digital device usage will be reach half of the emissions of the entire transportation industry in total. And you act like millennials are all bus riding, train riding, and EV driving people when many do drive gas guzzlers, in addition to buying a new smartphone every year. What's my contention here? Many of these digital devices that are manufactured serve no in' purpose other than being tech toys to show off on youtube unboxing videos. "Stop hating things I don't like!" I don't hate toys, but if we're really concerned about the environment, we'd curb our collective appe e for the latest smartphone and high def television (8K is absolutely useless at living room screen sizes at typical view distances). Millennials sure love to shake their fists at boomers for driving around an SUV, but don't check their rabid consumption of useless toys.
The proof isn't in the purchase because it's not broken down by age group. All you and I can do is guess. And it doesn't really matter. Millennials are buying either the iPhone or Samsung every year.
Now you're deflecting with a non-sequitur data point. You claimed millennials were the early adopters of EVs and hybrids, while boomers laughed at them from their Dodge Rams. That opinion was obviously wrong, since older generations were actually the first adopters.
My criticism re: Amazon is because millennials complain about corporate monopolies, desire to support "morally upstanding" businesses, small retail chains and independent stores, yet can't be tasked with driving to the Ace Hardware two towns away to support a relatively local brick-and-mortar. I'm not framing this as an all or nothing scenario. If you can't find what you need locally, yeah, click on Prime. If you can, support the local store that has it, even if it cost a little bit more and pulls you away from Instagram for 20 minutes. And to be fair, all demographics have been wooed by Amazon, so my complaints aren't solely directed at millennials.
Yes. Boomer haters exercise this method, as well. And "boomers ruined the world and drove up my student loans" doesn't make great click bait for millennials? To kind of end this debate, I think the generational tag is rather stupid anyway. Someone born in 46 and 64 are technically both boomers, but in my experience, the oldest boomers are more like Gen Xers in their cultural tastes and general at ude than someone born in '46. The oldest millennials are quite different from a millennials born in '98. That's why "blame" should be targeted toward individuals and not groups. I'm talking about millennials, but they aren't a hivemind. There's many who aren't so fascinated with the latest digital tech and drive lifted Dodge Rams.