Dedicated to all those children, adolescents and young people who have been activated and are fighting for their future.
Long ago the world waited for you. It was proven once again that you cannot plow in the sea. Instead, the seeds of hope, wherever they spread, one fine day may germinate, bloom and bear fruit. And notice, it seems that the seeds of hope are blooming in you, the "Friday Generation." It is you who the world has been waiting for a long time.
One loses count of the generations like Baby boomers, millennials, X, Y, Z, H, I, J and so many other names and letters with which they have labeled us, which are already confused and lost in the labyrinths of memory. But "Friday For Future" will be difficult to forget because it has already entered history. There you will be forever, Greta Thunberg and you, your companions, sitting on the neurons of collective memory, as the initiators of a new dawn.
Long ago the world waited for you, because your parents and older brothers never showed up. Not all, but most, little time was dedicated to the future, the one for which you are fighting now. Some said that you had to live in the present and clung to it religiously. Why think about the future if the planet is going to end soon? Why bring children to a world that will soon be hell? They said it and they believed it. They could not glimpse the future.
Others argued: “it was useless for us to become professionals with the highest qualifications, with postgraduate degrees, doctorates. We are trilingual, quadrilingual, and even so we cannot afford to pay a modest rent. It was useless to study and acquire knowledge, they said with a mixture of resentment and anger. Under this state of mind they moved to the present and there they anchored.
I reply to them in the voice of Érika, one of my characters, who, with a similar argument, answers his companions, all residents of Athens: “We must assume this knowledge as ours, from us young people, from nobody else, from our exclusive property. No one can take it away from us because it is not an object, or devalue it because it is not a currency, or seize it because it is not a house, or evict it because wisdom is so attached to our interior that it is impossible to separate it from it. We must convince ourselves that we have not studied just to get a job, a salary or an apartment. If we succeed, we will gain a better esteem for ourselves, we will mature and have a more constructive perspective of the world and the future ”.
You children, adolescents and young people have done something great, you have awakened to reality and have awakened the world. With their demonstrations they are pressuring countries, governments, the media, companies, philanthropists to do more. They have made millions of people who previously turned the environmental, environmental, climate and related pages, to stop and take an interest in their content. Now all over the world more and more people are talking about global warming, climate change, greenhouse effect, environment, sustainability, carbon footprint, fracking, clean energy, electric car, wind energy, photovoltaic panels, deforestation of forests, COP conferences, etc.
Finally, take this advice: if you want to be a different generation from the previous ones, give the acquisition of knowledge an important place of your time. In some countries they have eliminated History, Philosophy, Psychology and even Literature from the pensum, considering them "useless subjects". Make these matters your own, essential to understanding the world and protecting yourself against charlatans. In environmental matters absorb all the knowledge you can. Slogans, banners and demonstrations are not enough to fight climate change. You have to get data, information and relevant content. Learn something new every day. In this way they will strengthen themselves and will not run the risk that their movement will be ephemeral. Life on Earth can be saved.
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