What matters to Generation Z? What does life hold for Generation Alpha? - Misc and chat

I'm part of Gen Z and for me, the thing that worries me most is surviving the modern climate. The cost of living is high and even though I work I can hardly afford my bills and to run my car. I'm lucky that I still live at home with my parents, but, I know this can't be forever. My sister is in the same boat.

The threat of WW3 is always there too.

The future is worrying

The threat of WW3 has affected quite a few generations, I can remember adverts in the 80’s telling us what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. School trips were not allowed if it was to a City as there was a constant threat from the IRA. My parents watched the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in 1962. There unfortunately always seems to be conflict somewhere in the world.

I'd not long had my first child when Regan and Thatcher started ramping up nuclear weapons and the threat of WW3 felt very real. I was only a few months old when the Cuban missile crisis happened, my parents wondered if we'd make it as far as my first birthday.

I also remember all the bomb threats and bombings from the IRA, going to London to do xmas shopping always felt like a calculated risk.

I was born in 1962 so I'm technically a boomer, but those a bit older than me had scooped everything up by the time I was in need of council housing or anyting like that, I feel I've had the worst of all worlds for my age, no coucil housing left, jobs disapearing and never feeling able to get on the front foot, whilst many of my peers seemed to start off on the front foot, I feel like I missed everything by a couple of years.

Some of us have been concerned about the planet for over 40 years and have tried with varying amounts of sucess and failure to be good earthlings. Some of the sucesses have been saving whales, thier populations are rising now and hunting them is frowned upon internationally which was far from the case in the early 1980's. THe holes in the ozone layer are better than they were due to the phasing out of CFC's used in refridgeration. A lot has been done to better the lives of animals in captivity, and in farming. People are much more aware of environmental issues now and it's not a fringe subject anymore. There have been false starts like when the advice was to switch to diesel from petrol, until it was found that that was just as bad or worse, lots of people got stuck with car's they could afford to replace. Lead in petrol is a thing of the past as are the great smogs we used to get, swapping coal fires for gas powered central heating has been a bit swings and roundabouts.

It does worry me that there are still people who don't care and are happy to wreck the planet even more for the sake of profit, that they're to stupid to understand even the basics of the science behind it and scoff at those of us who do and are rightly concerned.

I'd not long had my first child when Regan and Thatcher started ramping up nuclear weapons and the threat of WW3 felt very real. I was only a few months old when the Cuban missile crisis happened, my parents wondered if we'd make it as far as my first birthday.

I also remember all the bomb threats and bombings from the IRA, going to London to do xmas shopping always felt like a calculated risk.

I was born in 1962 so I'm technically a boomer, but those a bit older than me had scooped everything up by the time I was in need of council housing or anyting like that, I feel I've had the worst of all worlds for my age, no coucil housing left, jobs disapearing and never feeling able to get on the front foot, whilst many of my peers seemed to start off on the front foot, I feel like I missed everything by a couple of years.

Some of us have been concerned about the planet for over 40 years and have tried with varying amounts of sucess and failure to be good earthlings. Some of the sucesses have been saving whales, thier populations are rising now and hunting them is frowned upon internationally which was far from the case in the early 1980's. THe holes in the ozone layer are better than they were due to the phasing out of CFC's used in refridgeration. A lot has been done to better the lives of animals in captivity, and in farming. People are much more aware of environmental issues now and it's not a fringe subject anymore. There have been false starts like when the advice was to switch to diesel from petrol, until it was found that that was just as bad or worse, lots of people got stuck with car's they could afford to replace. Lead in petrol is a thing of the past as are the great smogs we used to get, swapping coal fires for gas powered central heating has been a bit swings and roundabouts.

It does worry me that there are still people who don't care and are happy to wreck the planet even more for the sake of profit, that they're to stupid to understand even the basics of the science behind it and scoff at those of us who do and are rightly concerned.