"According to a recent poll, young people are deeply concerned about the world they will inherit, want to be more engaged in meeting the development needs of their communities, and are helping to lead democracy or social justice protests in their countries. At the same time, new research shows a large decline in trust and admiration for democratic governance. According to Freedom House, for the first time in decades, authoritarian leaning regimes outnumber democratic leaning ones, with a majority of the world’s population now living in authoritarian leaning countries."
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Really appreciate this article...young people are a huge 'lever of opportunity' for shaping better futures. Beyond the reoccurring pattern of counter-trends against trends, it seems there's the all too common 'economic' alliance between government and big business...because the system is still driven by a singular monetary metric...not a triple bottom line one...thus always thwarting/threatening civil society balance. And on top of that is big tech's data gathering.
This 'chicken' condition promotes distance/disinterest in the youth, the 'egg' -perceiving it's too big to change anything anyway. For sure adopting really meaningful civil/govt programs in early education is a great idea long overdue. And also the emerging “intergenerational fairness” the article points to is certainly about layering in more impact metrics...but even this dimension, unfortunately, is quite gray in terms of how we can even agree to measure it. Much more discovery, mapping and creation to do.