Young Folks, Fighting Back.

COLOMBIA, renowned for its excellent coffee, high grade marijuana, and perhaps the longest civil war in human history which ended only recently, seems also to produced some environmentally friendly millennials. Two of them have filed a lawsuit against their government, and by implication the entire global corporate industrial establishment, alleging that their futures are being damaged by deforestation, which, so they claim, leads to environmental destruction, global warming, climate change, and, ultimately, the extinction of all life on earth. It is arguable that Colombian marijuana and coffee production has become a tad too important, and the rain forest a tad too unimportant, among the nation's economic priorities, and this is what the two socially conscientious youths are seeking to demonstrate in a court of law. There is a trend of people all over the world taking legal action to prevent corporations and governments from further damaging the ecosystem. The millennial generation, those born between 1982 and 2000, are more concerned about the state of the earth's environment than any other generation in history, understandably so, since they have to most to lose by the environment's loss. by the time the millennials reach retirement age, not only might they not be able to retire owing to the probably lack of retirement savings a benefits, they might not be able to live on a planet with a climate conducive to their well being, or even survival. The millennials are showing themselves to be less materialistic, less dogmatically religious, and more concerned about the future of humanity than the rest of us. Long live the millennials.