AN IMPACT GENERATION

By: Silvia Davila MM

Bogotá, Copyright

On Behalf of Mr. Spock By Silvia Davila Morales®

/Chapter 3

AN IMPACT GENERATION

Orbiting Planet Earth

Spock: Captain, stats say that by the year 2050 planet Earth population will face a funnel: a reduced percentage of economically active people among a high percentage of elders. Therefore, in 2050 the active generation, which today are between 8 and 28 years of age, will have to be especially good – an Impact Generation – to handle a world inhabited by grandparents and children. Grandparents, on their part, will have to find the way to cooperate instead of becoming a burden, for what will be at stake is the survival of all and of the planet.

The equation to face such situation seems logical, captain: Prepare the Impact generation and keep healthy the adult population. With that priority, Earth would reach 2050 having a reduced but brilliant active generation, and a huge adult population physically and mentally still able to participate. From that situation their children would have nothing but gain.

What seems to be needed now is on one hand, the Impact Generation be seen not as chosen individuals but a generation as a whole. Otherwise, only a few privileged would have to and may not be able to carry the burden of all. On the other hand, Health would have to mean not the cure of deceases as it is seen now, but the prevention of them.

To accomplish that, the shift would have to be immediate and profound. Present active generation focused on year 2050’s that will be lived and led by their children, the Impact Generation. Their children are just 39 years away, Earth time, from the funnel. Decisions today will decide the future of the planet.

27 JULIO 2011 / On Behalf of Mr. Spock  By Silvia Davila Morales ®