This Politician 'OK, Boomer'-d A Climate Crisis Heckler Without Missing A Beat

Though "OK, boomer," started making the digital rounds some time in early 2019 — or at least early enough for someone to remix it into a song in July — the phrase finally hit the cultural stratosphere in late October, any time the New York Times presented a deep dive on the topic. At as a withering dismissal of the baby boomer generation's derision of Gen Z's very real fears connected with the climate crisis and fiscal inequity, an excellent reply to use on your crotchety uncle this Thanksgiving, as well as meme with a lot of merch potential, the phrase is already getting blowback from the very people it is meant to poke fun at (to which... OK, boomer).


And right now, moreover to going viral, the phrase has cemented itself into the annals of history: On Tuesday (November 5), New Zealand Parliament member Chlöe Swarbrick used "OK, boomer" to shut off a heckler who scoffed at her as she gave a speech about the climate crisis.


"How several world leaders for how several decades have seen and known what is coming nevertheless have determined that it is more politically expedient to keep it in back of closed doors? My generation and the generations immediately after me never have that luxury," 25-year-old Swarbrick, a member of the Green party who assumed office in 2017, mentioned throughout her address, per the Washington Post. "In the year 2050, I'll be 56 years old; nevertheless, now, the average age of this 52nd Parliament is 49 years old," she mentioned. (This is mirrored in the U.S., Where the average age of members of the U.S. Congress is 57.8, while U.S. Senators average 61.8 years old, meaning that, across the world, the people who vote on policies that largely affect future generations likely won't around to be able to see much of these effects come to life.)


It was at that moment that someone heckled her out of the frame. Swarbrick didn't miss a beat: "OK Boomer," she mentioned, before continuing her speech.





"Current political institutions have proven themselves incompetent at thinking outdoors of a short political term," she mentioned. "Change is so routinely sacrificed for power slogans are easy although this stuff, this action, is hard. Climate action cannot be sacrificed anymore for political convenience. Climate change is a deeply inconvenient truth."


Swarbrick's address was in regards to the country's Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment bill, which has earned the support of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who in September urged world leaders to take action at the United Nations summit. However it seems that some people took more offense at Swarbrick's use of the generational performer name than of her perfectly naming their apathy and incompetence at addressing one of the greatest crises of our time.


"Today I have learnt that responding succinctly and in brilliant jest to somebody heckling you about *your age* as you speak about the impact of climate change on *your generation* with the literal title of their generation makes some people very angry she wrote on Facebook about the people place on Earth between 1946 and 1964 who seem to spend plenty of time complaining about how sensitive young folks are, although easily forget about how riled up they get about criticism themselves.


Yet, Swarbrick saved the perfect dunk for last: "So I guess millennials ruined humour," she added. "That, or we just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and abstain from avocados."


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