¶ The “young people” of Spain — in their 30s, actually, but still living at home owing to anemic employment — may or may not have begun to shape an alternative government, with “protestors” occupying plazas all over the country, but we can see, in a story by Suzanne Daley, that they are establishing, in Europe, the alternative means of organizing that have already been seen in the Arab Spring. Their complaints, like those in Egypt and Tunisia and elsewhere, suggest both a generational bottleneck and an associated attrition of jobs. The status quo is clearly no kind of future for the world’s younger people. ¶ Meanwhile, in the United States, the operation of state parks is increasingly undertaken by retired volunteers, as budget cuts, as well as a lack of consensus about what parks are for, erode public funding.  William Yardley reports.

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