By Sarah Sladek –  It’s happening again. Way back in June of 2018, I authored a blog on what was being referred to as “the big global crack up”. In nations throughout the world – Spain, China, Germany, Britain, and the United States, to name a few – economies were unable to generate enough jobs to absorb their young people, creating generations of disaffected, unemployed, or underemployed for which the world had little to offer. The youth revolted. Protests erupted throughout the world. Notably, thousands of students in England demonstrated against a government move to enable the country’s universities to triple tuition fees, and the Arab youth bulge led a charge that overthrew dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Libya within a matter of months. At the time, the former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato said: “The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.” Mark Goulston, then Vice Chairman of Steele Partners, wrote: “If you look around you at the different generations, you will see that a revolution is brewing. But it is not brewing between democratic and totalitarian regimes. It is between generations.” In 2011, nothing in the world was stable, similar, or secure – especially for the world’s youth. As the end of 2019 approaches, it would seem history is repeating itself. Teenagers in the U.S. are organizing against gun violence, students in Hong Kong are battling for democratic representation, young people from South America to Europe are agitating for remaking the global economy, and youth worldwide are advocating for climate action. In the past year-and-a-half, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has addressed heads of state at the U.N., met with the Pope, sparred with the President of the United States, and inspired 4 million people to join the global climate strike on September 20, 2019, in what was the largest climate demonstration in history. Because of her, hundreds of thousands of teenagers from Lebanon to Liberia, have skipped school to lead their peers…