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The youth are much more aware of and concerned with issues like the environment, poverty and animal welfare than the previous generation. What is your opinion?

There is no doubt our generation has more access to information about the world's problems than the older generation had. However, an increasing number of people do not believe that the youth care about the environment, poverty or animal welfare as opposed to the older generation.

Personally, I think that people nowadays tend to care about environmental issues, poverty and animals much more than they used to. It can be explained by different reasons.

Firstly, the world we live in is changing rapidly and many problems become more urgent. For example, people can no longer ignore pollution and global warming as they have to solve these problems. Whereas the previous generation was indifferent to this issues.
The second reason is that technological progress has given people access to more information then was previously ever believed possible. As a result, the youth know more about animal welfare, poverty levels and many other concerns. Take, for instance, homeless cats and dogs. There are plenty of opportunities to help them using the internet and finding a new pet.

To sum up, I can say that access to information and realising the seriousness of problems helps new generations to deal with problems in a more effective way.