As Gen Z is growing up, we are living in a world that is out of our control.
Generations that have come before us have put us in positions that will be hard to undo. Gen X and Millennials consist of 1965-1995, which is 30 years of people who were introduced to the new advancements of our time and have no idea how to control them. Ultimately, that led to Gen Z being completely dependent on the internet and our current advancements. Technology is great and all, but not when it comes to societal blindness and unknowingly making ignorant mistakes.
Gen Z has gone through obstacles that people like our parents never experienced growing up. Their lack of knowledge on these conditions leave us with having to adapt and evolve on our own. The huge pause in all these children’s development during the time of COVID-19 (2020-2022) has left permanent scars that may never go away. Gen Z will grow up with communication issues and lack of social interactions because of the years spent behind a screen. Covid also caused the whole education system to lack human interaction needed for creating solid relationships with others. We can’t see much of an impact now, but when those children are 20 and only work behind a computer screen all day, we will see how many people prefer less human interaction.
The late 1980’s was the time of realization for the condition of the world. It was brought to scientists’ attention how global warming was becoming an issue, and that issue has been growing since. Gen Z is going to continue to live in a world that’s overheating, and at this point, we don’t have the power to stop it. The current leaders of our country won’t even live to see 2030, and if our current world condition doesn’t improve, neither will anyone else. We are constantly using our voices but because we aren’t even considered old enough to have our own opinions, we are ignored.
Gen Z and upcoming generations, Gen Alpha and Gen Beta, have had their futures planned out for the last 20 years. The Climate Change Clock estimates about five years until the earth’s temperature rises. Gen Z can’t necessarily fix that, but we can attribute to stopping it once the world is in our hands. Until then, past generations have not been putting enough thought into how our lives will be in the next 50 years.
