Memo to COP26 leaders: abandon your hubris, politics, and pride and see the future through young people’s eyes

Abstract

“Don’t let anybody else decide your future,” Barack Obama urged young people this week. “Imagine a better future and help make it real.” In fairness, young people aren’t the problem. The future, unfortunately, is controlled by their parents and grandparents, too many of whom see the future as an only slightly less rosy version of the past. Yet the multiverse of crises we face today won’t magically disappear with the click of a superhero’s fingers.