What's the problem with the 'boomers'?

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When an older heckler was silenced with 'OK, boomer' by Chlöe Swabrick, a 25-year-old MP from the Green Party in New Zealand, an internet meme was born. It’s become the phrase that millennials use to say the world they’ve inherited is not okay. Jessica Yarmosky explains how the phrase highlights the generational divide over hot topics like climate change and gun control. Photo: Two middle-aged people on a motorbike Credit: Getty Images