Generation We: How Millennial Youth are Taking Over America And Changing Our World Forever

by Eric Greenberg, Karl Weber

In the last three years, the Millennial Generation has emerged as a powerful political and social force. Currently including young people up to30 years of age, the Millennials are the largest generation in history; they are independent politically, socially, and philosophically and they are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Generation We explores the emerging power of the Millennial Generation, shows how the Millennials (and their supporters from other generations) are poised to change our nation and our world for the better, and lays out a powerful plan for progressive change that today s youth is ready to implement. Generation We presents for the first time the results of a major research study into the characteristics of the Millennial Generation, including an in-depth survey of 2,000 individuals and a series of twelve geographically- and demographically-diverse focus groups, all sponsored by author Eric Greenberg and conducted by Gerstein | Agne Strategic Communications, one of the most respected research organizations in the United States. Generation We also presents the major political, social, and economic challenges facing the Millennial generation. As Greenberg and Weber show, the best way to launch the Millennial revolution is with Project FREE a massive scientific and industrial program to move America beyond fossil fuels by inventing the next generation of energy sources. Project FREE will require a significant national investment. But it will produce millions of new jobs, dramatically reduce the environmental damage caused by carbon emissions, and free the country from dependence on unreliable, sometimes hostile foreign regimes. Ultimately, it even has the potential to revolutionize life on this planet, giving us energy that is virtually costless and producing many other huge benefits, from plentiful fresh water to an end to wars over resources. Generation We also answers the question, What can I do to help turn this vision of a better America into reality? It offers a list of specific steps citizens of any age can take to help promote the progressive ideals and program outlined in the book. It s the book that can inspire a generation to achieve new heights of greatness, allowing Americans to take back control of our lives, our communities, our country, and our future.
 

Genres: Politics

247 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 2008

Reviews

[Mina Villalobos · Rating 4 out of 5]

I tried the e-version first but I have trouble reading on the laptop -I never know where I left my reading- so I bought the paper copy. This is an interesting and inspiring book, though if you can read it online, you're probably better off, as it's a bit repetitive. I agree with a lot of what it says, but, as it happens often, I feel completely out of the picture since it's targeted for young US citizens -yes, they will change the world! I agree that our generation has the power to shape the world, and that the US is a powerhouse, but I felt it could have been more inclusive in it's message. I guess it's too broad, though. Millenials around the world have a lot in common, but we also each have our local problems and agendas. Given that the US does have a lot of years of development on us the lowly third world countries, I do look at the country problems and fear for my country's future -and everyone else's future. We need to avoid ending up there.

I think as a call of action this is a great book. It has a lot of inspiring examples of people working towards the greater good, interesting data from the demographic studies, and it does fill my heart with hope for a future that looks rather bleak. I'm all for Project FREE, even if I don't live in the US, and I think a lot of the strategies -as well as a lot of the Millenial trends- apply to the young people of my country. It was an interesting read, though if you read the We Declaration(chapter 7) of the book, you can pretty much skip mostly everything else.

[Helen · Rating 1 out of 5]

So far this book has too many graphs, and too much of the we. I don't know. I don't like the word we. Maybe I shouldn't be part of this generation. I'll go run off to the mountains of Guam (where is Guam? You'd think with all the new "we"ness of the world I'd have the tools to look that up) and make my own generation, where there's no talk of separatness or "we" vs "them". We're all just... you know. People. Generations are so flexible, does it really matter whether we call them Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Me, Milennials or Generation We?

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay. It was more about policy and political agenda then describing characteristics about the We generation. Fortunately, I agree with the policies and statements this book made and believe in the efforts need to make a social change so it did not bother me too much.