My jaw just dropped. Please tell me this wasn't written seriously? But it appears to be.

When a young person says, "Previous generations have devastated the environment", a response like "We leveraged the technology that our parents designed to create the social media space that your generation is here to dominate," is an entirely terrible answer.

Social media has in no way at all made the world more sustainable - quite the reverse. "Leveraging social media" is exactly the reverse of "real, tangible change".

Unless it results in actual physical improvements to the environment, social media is worthless. But in fact the fifteen or so years that we have had social media have been the worst fifteen years in history for both consumption, pollution, species extinction, deforestation, and every other bad, unsustainable thing you can think of.

"Real, tangible change" would involve less destruction of the planet. Talking endlessly about how we shouldn't destroy the planet on social media while not changing either your life or the world is worth less than zero - it gives you the impression you are helping when in fact you're just consuming more stuff.

"We leveraged the technology that our parents designed to create the social media space that your generation is here to dominate," is a completely and utterly inadequate response to "Our natural world is being killed."

Your generation talked a lot and did nothing positive. So did ours, and all the way back — there is more than enough guilt to go around when you decimate an ecosystem.

Now you declare a bullshit accomplishment because you "leveraged the technology to create the social media space", drop the problem off on a lot of desperately powerless children, and wash your hands of it. "We raised awareness, so we didn't have to actually do anything! Achievement awards all around! Burgers for everyone!"