Gen Y: Technological Contributions and their effect on the environment?

Question

For the sake of the paper, the promt is including technological advances from the last ten years...yes, I know that's enters Gen X territory, but I didn't come up with the prompt. Here goes:

Technology and the Environment: What has Gen Y contributed? What kind of effects have these technological contributions had on the environment?

Answer 1

Since Generation Y is only starting to enter professional age, I'd doubt that they've contributed to out technology base in any significant way.  Most inventions in the past decade are credited to beople older than that.

Gen Y's role during the period in question has been as a consumer, meaning their effect on the environment as been probably negative (all young people are a negative drain on their society until they reach productive age).