Accompanying growing up

The activists of the Last Generation now glue themselves to roads and airport runways as well as conductors' stands, they throw mashed potatoes and tomato soup at panes of glass behind which hang works of art. They are angry, want to save the planet and feel that with less spectacular actions no one would listen to them. At Waldorf schools, too, there are upper school pupils who demand and are organising change. They are committed, for example, to making their schools climate neutral (the German Association of Waldorf Schools, by the way, supports these initiatives with the project www.co2ero.de).

Waldorf schools set themselves the task of making young people fit for life, so that they want to and are able to work for society in an active and future-oriented way – with trust in themselves and in the world. This task seems even more challenging than before in these times of climate change, war and energy crisis.

Will the young generation succeed in pushing through their demands for stricter climate protection rules? Will there be a speed limit in Germany in four years' time, will there be enough wind turbines and solar plants so that we can switch off coal and gas-fired power stations? That is what I wish for us.