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Meredith Haaf
One of the more absurd constellations of the present is that the mineral oil company Shell has been promoting a much-cited long-term study on the fears, values and political goals of young people for almost 70 years. Although the company sucks more than a billion barrels of oil out of the ground every year and, according to one calculation, has been involved in the emission of almost 32 billion tons of CO₂ equivalent over the past 50 years, sociologists and youth researchers regularly ask young Germans on its behalf how how they are actually doing and what they hope for in the future. Interesting information on this can be found in Philipp Staab’s new book “Adaptation. Leitmotif of the Next Society”.