Extinction Rebellion is leading a new, youthful politics that will change Britain | Matthew d’Ancona

A generation of networked rebels will bring down an old order whose failings have been laid bare

I am a fan of generation gaps. Though academics and the media love to identify new demographic cohorts – Generation X, Generation Z, Net Gen, Gen Wii – such distinctions often confuse mere fashion with decisive transformations in behaviour, social priority and worldview. But we need such transformations, the inter-generational arguments that they spawn, and the changes that, sooner or later, they compel upon us all.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GrmLbk