People in Power are Ruining my Future, but I guess that’s Okay
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People in power are ruining my future, but I guess that’s okay because adults are always right, right? The millennial generation has been given the amazing opportunity to defeat climate change! What an honor it is to be part of the generation that could save our world or cease to exist in the future. The only problem is that the millennial generation cannot do anything about it while “mature,” knowledgeable adults sit on the throne of power. It ignores what’s to come in the next years if we don’t take charge and what might happen because of climate change. Most adults think that the millennial generation has no idea what climate change is and thinks it’s only a meme.
They also probably think that the millennial generation cannot understand the terms such as fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions and the difference between weather and climate. I’m positive that young people are not even thinking of the hole that the world is heading in, they are not thinking of creating a life for themselves after getting out of school, meeting someone and start a family. I’m sure that they do not even care that adults are ruining their future by taking fossil fuels and not leaving them in the ground. The millennial generation is of course too busy being self-centered and having no grasp of what the real world is like (Selfie!). It’s not like younger people have been doing walkouts from school and taking matters into their own hands.
“Everyone gets it! Kids get it, dogs get it and even my idiot boss gets it!” is what Ronny Chieng said on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2019). Why is it so hard to understand that kids and teenagers care about their future and are taking matters into their own hands? The older generations will die of old age and the millennial generation will die of climate change. Ever since I began having a mind of my own, people would always say: “Listen to adults; they know what they are talking about.” Why should I listen to adults who are putting my future at risk?
Why should I listen to adults that care more about making money than creating a world for their kids and grand kids? This may come off as being selfish and self-centered but I am a millennial, so it is bound to happen. Is it selfish to want to live and create a life? Is it selfish to want to have a future where I will be able to have kids of my own one day? Younger generations often seem to lack a level of maturity, but why is it that adults who deny climate change are not mature enough to admit that it is here and it is real? They are leaving it on the shoulders of their children and chose to ignore us when we are asking for help. They have ignored us in the past and will ignore us again, whether they like it or not the millennial generation is here to fight back and take a stand. At nineteen years old, I should not be worrying about climate catastrophe but I should worry about student debt, equality, unemployment and so much more. If climate change is resolved, my life will be perfect again... Wait a minute.
