Encontré una carta dirigida a jovenes de la generación Y & Z. Me gusta como cuestiona el legado de los Babby boomers, asi como su enfasis en el trabajo multigeneracional y el evitar a toda costa el caer en pesimismos catastroficos que solamente paralizan y no activan.
Aqui la carta, espero que la disfruten tanto como yo;
I shudder
to think just how angry young people are going to be when they wake up to the
full extent of my generation’s negligence. If you subscribe to that uplifting
aphorism that "we do not inherit the earth from our parents, but borrow it
from our children", then we really screwed up.
Having
spent the last 20 years or so in outright denial about the declining state of
the world, we've now leapt in one fell swoop from denial to despair. More and
more leading scientist involved in the climate change debate are claiming that
it may already be too late to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases at a safe level – i.e. a level that doesn’t trigger runaway ‘dangerous’
climate change. Having stolen their future, we are about to steal whatever
reasons to be hopeful young people might still have.
I rather
hope that the 54,240 ‘future leaders’ who responded to this survey will have
something to say about that. Their awareness about climate change is
impressive, seeing it as an extremely urgent, potentially life-threatening
phenomenon, not something to be kicked further off into the long grass. And
there is a lot of evidence here that is certainly the most
environmentally-aware generation we’ve ever seen.
But their
responses also show us that is a transitional generation, with one foot planted
confidently in the low–carbon environment-friendly economy of the future, but
the other still rooted in today’s high-speed, high consumption,
carbon-intensive lifestyles. So emissions from aviation are quite rightly
fingered as a growing problem, but perish the thought that this means they’ll
end up flying a lot less than their parents!
But for
those seeking their own ‘reasons to be hopeful’, in the face of growing
ecological doom and gloom, there is a huge amount to be optimistic about in this
survey. As far as most of our future leaders are concerned, their glasses are
undoubtedly half full when they look out on the world ahead. And long may it
stay that way.
Para mi después de leerla, solo me queda una pregunta;
¿Cómo podemos aprovechar, los países emergentes, con economías crecientes; el conocimiento y experiencia de países desarrollado para no cometer sus errores -es decir brincar sus fallas- y generar innovaciones que 'mejoren' la vida de todos los ciudadanos del territorio en cuestión?
