The Myth of the “Green” Young Person:
Millennials, young adults who grew up with the global warming discussion and calls to “reduce, reuse, recycle”, list the environment among their top concerns – but they seem to mean it should be a concern for other people.
Instead, young Americans of today are individually less interested in the environment and in conservation than those of 40 and 20 years ago. They are also less civic-minded in general. The results were from an analysis of 9 million young adults in the years 1966 to 2009 (…)
Maybe baby boomers were not the “Me Generation” at all – they instead gave birth to it.
