Many born between 1980 and 2000 are painted as pampered do-gooders with naive worldviews — but these criticisms overlook the bigger picture
Whiny, self-obsessed, not politically engaged enough — the accusations directed at millennials by older generations seem endless.
We're hurtling towards the edge of a cliff at full pelt — it isn't for the sake of science that we're trying to figure out the quantity by which sea levels are set to rise; it's about survival. Fewer contributors and more beneficiaries mean great challenges will be posed for the statutory pension for a good 15 years. How these challenges will be managed isn't just a technical question. In fact, some are taking the opportunity — through scandalous inaction — to slowly chip away at the principle of solidarity when it comes to pensions and to privatize them.
In order to steer us into a desirable future, we need those in decision-making positions to be sharp. They need both the courage to change yet the informed judgment to pick up on warning signs too. To ensure we don't continue to deplete our resources, we need a clear plan that takes into consideration the effects of our actions.
I still remember the look of horror on the faces of my first boyfriend and his parents when I announced I was leaving high school as soon as I legally could, to follow my heart and become a childcare worker.And that's exactly what our generation so urgently needs: lessons in life. More and more tasks are being taken over by machines and artificial intelligence.
This power needs to be handed over to the younger generation at an early stage. We're ready to take on the responsibility and start restructuring things.Jörg Mayer and Nadine Horn, both in their early thirties, are vegan bloggers on 'Eat this'.The abundance in food and convenience have featured heavily in the kitchens of the post-war generation. Where meat had previously featured rarely on the dining table, it was almost a compulsory, everyday part of meals in the 1950s.
We try to set a good example and show that vegan life is anything but boring, that we don't just live off salad or tofu — that the kitchen can be a place to have fun. We're trying to show that cooking with friends, either alone or in pairs, is not another tedious chore; it's the best thing you can do.Ria Schröder, 26, chairman of Jungen Liberalen .The baby boomers, our parents and theirs, have been instrumental in ensuring we grew up with high living standards.
My personal goal, through a more responsible approach than previous generations, is to help our generation ensure this power sticks around long term, instead of putting it at risk by inviting irreversible climate disasters.David Visnjic We always need to be ready to learn new things and take risks. And many opportunities and possibilities arise with the Internet if you're open to it — cryptocurrencies are something I'm currently heavily involved in and open to, and I realize older generations aren't.
Where justice and gender equality are concerned, the older generation has set us on a path of clear progress, particularly as regards legal equality between the sexes. While we have to defend this success, we also have to continue fighting for 100% equality between men and women, whether in family and work, pay or pension, and the end of sexual violence towards women and girls.Barbara Engels, 30, economist at the Institute of German Economics Cologne .
We, all generations together, can define new goals and break out of this established cycle, that's exploiting human and environmental resources. Instead of sitting passively in front of the television and getting worked up about company bosses, we should all be taking responsibility and consuming both more sustainably and consciously. And we should be asking ourselves from time to time what actually makes us truly happy.
Yet, due to a lack of technical support, training, time, and security, few teachers can organize something like this on their own initiative. On my page"Toller Unterricht" I publish lots of my ideas as well as tried and tested lesson plans, with materials included.
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