miércoles, 28 de junio de 2023

Fed up

A student in class told me "teacher when you die, those of your generation, it will be the end of the world" I asked him the reason for this comment and he replied that it was because of climate change, the economic crisis, the war... Teenagers know and feel that they belong to the second generation that lives worse than the previous ones, which had never happened before. They consider a life without properties, without stability, without respecting their rights such as an own home. They do not have the future that their parents and grandparents had. They must live from day to day. We find boys and girls who do nothing. They go to school unmotivated. Others are super prepared to have subsistence salaries or go to countries more developed than ours. The majority who ask why and what to strive for something, not get an answer. They move to the immediacy of mobile phones or video games. Fed up for having created a catastrophe climate. This defeatism that these young people don't deserve. We cannot aspire to a better society if we cannot change the future. Let's talk about progress in the history of humanity. For example, civil engineering that has managed to convert inconspicuous deserts into crop fields. We have been eighty years without world wars. That this world, their world, will be better because it will be the one they wish.