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Does Gen Z Really Give That Much of a F*ck About the Climate Crisis?
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The school kids are protesting on the streets again. They are on a climate strike from school, following Greta Thunberg: Skol strejke for Klimatet.
Good on you, kiddos.
Despite what a certain audience says on social media, Greta has inspired a generation. She has youth, activism, urgency and fearlessness.
But does Gen Z really care about the environment?
The last couple of years on Zoom
My niece started not wanting to read a book with her grandmother. My sister said, “Leave it. They have had enough going on already.”
They were learning division at school, but they looked like little office workers on their laptops. They are on Zoom for hours per day. Shuttled between the two parents, not seeing their friends at school, staring at screens.
I was quite proud when my niece wrote ‘Fuck You’ during one Zoom call lesson.
I know the feeling.
Every generation has a year where there is a spike in the number of people born. The next sizeable group of children are those born in 2012. They eat take out sushi with their office worker mother who also works at home, with…
