I grew up in New York City and remember doing drills for nuclear attacks hiding under the desk as if that would actually save us and yet I don't think I ever remember a time thinking that the future might not be better And so we were a generation that really believed the future would be better than the past and for the first time in many decades if you ask people in the developed countries "Will my children's life be better than mine?" This is the first time in many generations where the answer is no And many people our age are daunted by hearing so many young people say that they don't want to have children not because th- th- they don't want that lifestyle but because they don't want to bring children into the world and the system that exists now
