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Article: The 17 great challenges of the twenty-first century: by some estimates, humanity has only a 50% chance of surviving the next hundred years. It will be the job of today's young people to put the odds in our favor.(global warming, terrorism, population growth, globalism, poverty)
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- The Futurist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Young people sometimes ask me, "If you were to pick any time in history to be alive, which time would you pick?" I reply to their question, "If I could choose any time to live, I would want to be a teenager now (in a country where great education is available)." The reason I would choose to be a young person today, rather than during some earlier period in history, is that now, more than at any other time, young people will make a spectacular difference.
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