BABY BOOMERS CLAIM THEY CANNOT NAME ONE CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVIST
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HOTTEST MAGAZINE OF THE CENTURY
SUMMER DRESSING HOW TO TAKE THE HEAT
GRETA THUNBERG
ARE BABY BOOMERS THE PROBLEM?
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CONTENTS 18 The Wonder of Coming
of Age Novels
12 EXCERPT: You Had
Me at Goodbye
9 AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:
Katherine Weiss
3 Climate Change Opinion Across All Generations Article 7 New Releases 20 8 Young Emerging Writers This year's promising young writers are about to shine 23 INDIE INSIDER: Hidden Bookshops Hole in the wall bookshops are popping all over the Metro 30 NEW BLOOD: Christina Adams Explore Christina's world of magical realism 32 REVIEW: Flesh and Blood This year's most-awaited thriller
Salvador Hagan shares what Climate Change will lead to in the forthcoming years. Story on p. 20
40 SHORT STORY: The Buried Key by Alexander Wyeth 43 POETRY: Sweet Serenity by Samantha Adams
20 8 Young Emerging Writers
52 COMICS CORNER: Incidental Ideas
Get to know eight twenty-something
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CLIMATE CHANGE OPINIONS ACROSS ALL GENERATIONS AN ARTICLE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE BY SALVADOR HAGAN
It is with no doubt that Climate Change has
While a good conclusion is an important ingredient
an effect on our environment and
for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline
corporations, and proved through facts and
environment means that copy editing often takes
research that we (humanity) are to blame for
the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary
our current affairs with Climate Change. Our current affairs leads us to rely on youth climate activists to send our message across, such as how to stop the negative spread of
point in the story corresponding to the dictates of
available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper
reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid
style, with all the most important information in the
first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are
Climate Change and peer on who the cause of
pushed towards the end of the story, then the
this tragedy is. Can we hold anyone
potentially destructive impact of draconian copy
accountable, is there more than one cause to
editing will be minimized.
the problem? Climate Change has existed through multiple generations posing a threat to our environment, resulting in harsher weather conditions and increased natural disasters. As demonstrated through research, climate change predates Generation Z and begins with Generation X and Baby Boomers. However without drastic progress over the last few decades, we have been dependent on youth-climate activists to amplify our desperation for change.
According to Wikipedia, a news article discusses
current or recent news of either general interest (i.e.
daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political
or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or
technology news websites). Quoted references can also be helpful. References to