Five things the future generation will condemn us for:

1. The environment
As third world countries start to develop and populations start to increase, the amount of energy and amenities needed will increase – this only means environmental issues will also increase. Our current environmental problems have always been an issue, but in the near future, these issues will only worsen and heavily impact the world.
According to MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change’s 2012 Energy and Climate Outlook energy usage could possibly double by the year 2050. China would go from having about 50 million cars and trucks to nearly 300 million.
Both the elderly and the younger generation are at fault with their rude and wasteful attitude towards most of our planets natural resources. The main problem with ourselves is that everyone knows what they are doing and how they are affecting the world, but we lack some sort of motivation to fix that. The future generation will lack the easiness of living free and instead they will inherit a wasteful Earth.

2. The National Debt
Undoubtedly the national debt is a worldwide crisis and has been affecting everyone, not only in the U.S., but around the world. According to the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) the national debt increased from $3.23 trillion in 1990 to $5.67 trillion in 2000. But the debt didn’t just stop there, it kept increasing and increasing and now it lays at $17 trillion and still counting.
In order for the debt to be paid off all government spending would have to stop completely, which includes welfare and other government subsidies and taxes will also raise at least 10%. The future generations will be forced to pay off all the debt.
In perspective it would take 31,710 years to pay back $1 trillion, at a rate of $1 per second, but multiply that by 17 and that’s how long it would take our debt to be fully paid off. In the future the government would be forced to shut down most of the welfare programs, affecting every single person.

3. College Tuition
Paying for college is something that nobody looks forward to – whether their parents have been saving up since their birth or they have just started saving up for it. Some colleges range up to a total of $64,000 annually and a number of students take nearly 25 years to pay back their loans, especially if you aren’t making a suitable amount from your job.
After getting out of college, most students are drowned in debt and then spend their whole life trying to pay off all the accumulated debt. College tuition has become so expensive in the last couple of years that most students have skipped out on getting their degree. According to OECD, almost half of American students – 46 percent – finish college.Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. had the highest percentage of college graduates in the world, but we are now slipping out of ninth place.
There needs to be a way that students aren’t wasting their life paying back their debts or aren’t being forced to choose between getting an education and living easily.

4. Educational system
Focusing in on our public school educational system, The U.S. lacks being “intelligent.” In five out of eight criteria measured by the OECD, which includes math, science and reading scales, Americans were determined average. The U.S. was below average in math and they test worse than students in 30 other countries. According to the NAEP Nations Report Card, Nearly three out of four eighth and 12th grade students can’t write proficiently and two out of three eighth-graders can’t read proficiently.
According to the World Economic Forum the U.S. is ranked a shocking 51st in the world in science and math education. If we want to be the number one country in the world, shouldn’t we be number one in our education also? We obviously need to fix something in our education system, so we can actually make a difference.

5. Our treatment towards the elderly
They may be the wiser generation, but nearly two million of America’s elderly are living in nursing homes. Though many elderly Americans live independently, they are mostly left isolated and away from their families.
We have yet to realize the true value of the older generation. Keeping our aging parents has become a hard challenge for most people and that is something that we should not lose because unlike other cultures we don’t value them enough. Lets not forget they survived their whole life by looking up answers through books and not Google.