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What Do You Say When Young People Ask If There Is Hope?

What Do You Say When Young People Ask If There Is Hope?

This last weekend one of my students asked if we might talk…? (I teach the next generation’s business leaders at the Bard MBA.) Sure. “It’s my daughter…,” she said, her eyes moistening. “She asked me this week if she is going to have a future.” It’s heartbreaking that our children have to deal with these fears. But in many ways, they are being more adult about it than we have been. They see speeches such as David Attenborough’s at the recent global climate conference in Poland where he stated: “The end of civilization is on the horizon.” Our children realize that grownups...