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Gen Z are desperate to be eco-friendly but LinkedIn says they’re so underskilled they actually pose a ‘risk’ to climate progress (finance.yahoo.com)
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Came upon this beautiful piece of corporate propaganda.

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[–] newnton@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean it explicitly says it’s not Gen Z’s fault they don’t have the requisite training. They want to learn more than the rest of the population, there just aren’t good opportunities to learn the relatively niche skills.

I totally agree the article should have been written way better, and I question why it focuses on just gen z when a lack of sustainable talent seems like a multigenerational problem, but improving training being most critical for gen Z as they will be taking over more and more of the workforce in the oncoming years (critically during the window of opportunity to reverse more of the effects of climate change) makes sense to me

[–] Doof@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe it was written by a Gen Z