A Green Party MP who shut down a heckler may have been the first to use the phrase ‘OK boomer’ in Parliament.
Her comment came after she pointed out that the average age of the current New Zealand parliament was 49, whereas in 2050 she would be 56.It refers to the Baby Boomer post-war generation, born between 1946 and 1964, blamed for a lack of decisive action on climate change. ‘Climate change is a deeply inconvenient truth. Mr Speaker, if climate action is indeed our nuclear free moment, it should be and it must be transformational.’
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