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The Progressive Policy Think Tank
IPPR North IPPR Scotland

Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations

Younger generations, in addition to being economically worse off than their parents, face a future of unprecedented environmental breakdown.

They will disproportionately bear the burden of having to rapidly transform economic systems in order to decelerate environmental breakdown while withstanding its increasingly destabilising consequences; an unprecedented challenge. Leaders in older generations are failing to act and so younger and future generations face a toxic inheritance: a future of compounding environmental breakdown and destabilisation. 

In response, many young people are already leading the discussion on the threats of environmental breakdown and the need for action. This leadership should be better recognised, including through formal representation of the interests of younger and future generations in decision-making systems.
 

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