Bleak

by | Nov 15, 2012


Pithy summary of the problems faced by UK 16-30 year olds in an email sent round by the excellent Intergenerational Foundation:

Frustrated / voiceless / no future / sky-high rents / student debt / injustice / fear for future / unemployed / unpaid internships / living at home / climate change / no prospects / no jobs / jilted / sustainable pensions / tuition fee hike / disenfranchised / boomerang generation

They’re running a film competition, btw.

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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