‘The next generation has spoken...They don’t want nuclear weapons in their future.' Photo: by Laurentiu Morariu on Unsplash
Age of majority: Clare Phillips’ Thought for the Week
‘Young people need our belief that change is possible – that the earth can be saved, that war is not inevitable.’
by Clare Phillips
11th March 2022
According to a recent poll commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross, a majority of millennials (people aged twenty to thirty-five), across sixteen countries and territories, support the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The detail shows that eighty-six per cent of Russians (and ninety-two per cent of those in Ukraine) took this view. Only four states had higher results, one being Syria.
