Young people have too many emotions and can’t be trusted with decision-making, the country’s minister of climate change, Ali Shareef, last year told a public forum.
Young people have too many emotions and can’t be trusted with decision-making, the country’s minister of climate change, Ali Shareef, last year told a public forum.
Old people have no skin in the game or a good track record with all their previous decisions that got us into this mess and can’t be trusted with decision-making
You are maybe talking specifiacally about “old rich white men”, perhaps?
Otherwise, this statement doesn’t make much sense in the Maldives context. They were under several collonial rules for centuries and gained their independence from the british not that long ago, in the 60’s, well kinda. Plenty of old people there have been fighting for a just society since their youth, and I cannot blame them for their decisions. And the young ones take their turn now.
Some old people are the ones who pioneered climate research, renewable energy, de-growth, and environmental activism!
Without them, no-one would understand what exactly has gone wrong or what can be done about it.
Learn to distinguish people based on their individual actions (for which they are responsible), not their involuntary characteristics.
They’ve got skin on the wrong game. Every discussion probably ends with “but the economy”