Young people are crucial in the global transition from dirty to clean energy. We also must play a pivotal role in re-envisioning and re-inventing our society to fully harness the potential within a clean energy future.
If there is one idea that serves as our core identity and our rallying cry it is this: young people today have the power to change the world. Many of us emerge into the adult world a bit groggy with confusion and perhaps a lack of direction, but with the fierce motivation to “make a difference.” And the world, it seems, desperately needs us.
We face an incredibly uncertain future. As a forthcoming UN report concludes, seeming almost entirely redundant, the world has never seen calamities at such a global scale.
It is a relatively new conception of the world as a connected global community that enables us to feel the sadness and anger inherent in these global calamities. Many of us who live in post-scarcity comfort, with most of our own fundamental needs met, can’t bear the injustice of a world where billions of people do not. As the UN report points out, “ours is the first generation with the means for many to know the world as a whole, identify global improvement systems, and seek to improve [them].”
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