And so I had an awakening in the research, which I wanted to impress on the reader. Climate change is not a compartmentalizable challenge. It is the theater in which all human life in the next century will be conducted. It will be the story of our time, and I wanted to invite readers to think a little bit about what that would mean for their lives, and for the lives of their children and grandchildren. Gunn-Wright says that the current version of the Green New Deal has been imagined from the “perspective of a young person, in the sense that the decisions that we make right now are going to shape so much of what happens for the next 50 years.” She explains that the future orientation allows for something that’s been missing from national discourse: what a future could look likeafterwe band together to tackle climate change. — voting issue for young people, why isn’t the Green Party growing as a political force? Asyoung climate activistsandthe Green New Deal Pauline Schaefer-Betz during the Women's Qualification on day two of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Laurence Griffiths/Getty ImagesReuters also reports