Passing the baton: will young people take up the fight to save the planet?

‘Younger activists may not follow the same path as their elders but they are engaged and taking action in their own way’

 Student activists join the March for Our Lives across the US. 

Every generation of old codgers thinks its society’s youth are feckless layabouts who will send the world to hell in a handbasket. Socrates complained that ancient Greek children loved luxury, and had terrible manners and contempt for authority. In the 1920s, parents feared their offspring would turn into immodest flappers and risky partygoers. In the 1960s, when large numbers of students and young people drove the new civil rights, feminist, peace and environment movements, they sent the older generation into a panic. Youth had “gone wild”. Teenagers were “sex-obsessed”, while protestors were nothing better than rioting criminals. It’s inevitable, then, that millennials cop criticism, but it’s not justified.

Read the story from The Guardian by Clare Press - “Passing the baton: will young people take up the fight to save the planet?”