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We have to educate the next generation
A rant about how that’s outdated.
We’re always looking to the next generation to fix the faults of the world. I was that generation once, being taught about the importance of the green belt and recycling and equality. The boomers of today all had hope in us.
I guess those boomers are mostly still alive, including those calling the shots, with 42% of the world’s billionaires aged 70+, so perhaps we have to wait for them to die off to see some real shift.
But it seems like our destiny is now our present, dystopia is just around the corner as culture wars, proxy wars and climate change seem to keep going from gear to gear.
So instead of us putting our faith into the next generation, instead of us continuing to tell them to do as we say and not as we do, perhaps it’s time we all just starting doing.
Go green
Gretha Thunberg has somehow been able to break through all the noise and stir a generation. Yet she’s been made out to be a hypocrate and slight delusional.
Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil get into the papers too, but alongside words that make them seem like their actions are disrupting and killing more people (they haven’t killed anyone) than the corporates and actions they’re protesting…
