A group of Concerned Students from Goodrich wrote the letter to the editor “Help save the environment,” just to the left of this column.

I applaud the students, not only because I happen to agree with their conservation stance and the economic benefits associated with “going green,” but also because it’s encouraging to see students get involved and work to change their world.

I’m considered a Gen-X’er — that over-educated, underemployed generation of apathetic people in their 30s who seem to be associated more with the whole grunge music scene in the early 1990s than with the previous generations that wanted to change the world, “make love not war” and continue the baby-booming of America.

We’re also the first generation expected to do worse than our parents, which doesn’t bode well for my Social Security payments.

Hopefully, those kids in college and high school now will emerge as a positive source, working past any perceived indifference to the world’s problems and work to promote the peace, environmentalism and safeguarding Social Security. I’m not getting any younger, you know.

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