environmental awareness across time and generations

awareness of the environmental impact of the dominant, modern, developed world's way of life

note: in terms of scientific methodology, this post/statement is very poor, but the (more common-sense) reflection/portrayal of the reality in focus seems to be highly accurate/obvious

in the middle, at 39 years old, there seems to be both good and bad inversed of the older generations and the younger generations in relation to (something like this graph).

for the older generations, the good is their relatively stable, less degraded environment they enjoyed, and the bad is the relative lack of awareness of what their imbalanced, unsustainable, and higher-standard-of-living-in-the-developed-world lifestyle has done to the health and sustainability of the planet.

for younger generations it is inversed, as they will have to suffer-adapt through Climate Change and a(n environmentally-)chronically ill environment. some that also enjoyed some fruits of ill, industry-scale economic activity appear as though they will have even worse problems of recovering from such addiction-like dependencies on such a misguided way of life, going from a spoiled/overly luxurious life to a more austere lifestyle, but also they have (especially assisted with this internet, that includes evolved knowledge (of best knows)) a super advanced awareness (of positive actions of how to recover from and avoid such a poor environmental condition, for example)