Why Millennials Could Be The Next ‘Greatest Generation’

Some days I feel my life won’t amount to a hill of beans.

To clarify, I feel someone threw my life into a dryer and forgot to set the timer. In my immediate future I have to pay student loans, find a better job, and hope some sort of female will find me attractive.

In the greater future there’s problems like climate change, overpopulation, political turbulence, and the general feeling that World War 3 is about to break out at any time.

This is a scary time in case you didn’t notice — especially for us Millennials.

WE’RE the ones who are going to inhabite this earth for the next 50 years.

It’s easy to look at our situation as a dillemma, but we can also look at it as a major opportunity.

I remember learning about the Greatest Generation in my sophomore history class. They stood up to the evils of the world — one of the worst mankind had ever seen — and came out the other side victorious.

I don’t mean to equate the problem of climate change with the evil of Hitler, but I think we are facing issues that, if overlooked, can cause just as much harm to us as any other occurence in history.

I’ve always believed that big problems are big opportunities to rise to the occasion. If millennials, or Generation Z for that matter, can help to solve our issues in energy, climate change, politics, and foreign relations, I think we could go down as one of the greatest generations of all time.

We’re not exactly storming the beaches of Normandy, but we are facing a great evil — albeit a less tangible one.

We have the power to invent things that could change the world for seven billion people. We have the power to become independent of oil and gas. If we solve these problems, it would be like hitting a grand slam in the ninth inning to win the game.

And we’ve already proven to be a smart, creative, and conscious bunch re-writing the rules of the world as we grow along with it.

I have hope we’ll continue to do so. I have hope we’re going to change the world.

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