Richard Heinberg:
A YouTube video, website, and book titled "Generation We" offer up a paean to the promise of the under-30 generation, which will be more numerous than the Baby Boomers who are their parents and grandparents. Boomers screwed up big time, but "Generation We" will tidy the mess.
This cohort has plenty of challenges to face—peak oil, climate chaos, economic collapse, the end of economic growth. And their Facebook skills may not prepare them especially well for the tasks that await them—growing food without chemical fertilizers or diesel fuel for tractors, keeping warm in the winter without natural gas, keeping the computers running without spare parts or reliable electricity.