Milennials: Trophy-Weaned Basement Dwellers, Or Ruthlessly Killing The Oil Industry?

[hatrack]

Depending on who you ask, millennials are either lazy, trophy-weaned basement dwellers or ruthlessly efficient killing machines, taking down everything from Buffalo Wild Wings to department stores. But unless you peruse the business press and semi-obscure trade publications, you may have missed the news about our latest mark: the fossil fuel industry. A handful of articles have pointed out that the workforce of the oil industry is rapidly aging, and companies are having trouble attracting younger workers into their folds.

According to a recent report by pollsters EY, 57 percent of teens now see the fossil fuel industry as bad for society, and 62 percent of those aged 16 to 19 say working for oil and gas companies is unappealing. Other findings suggest that millennials dislike the oil industry the most of any potential employer, with only 2 percent of college graduates in the United States listing the oil and gas industry as their first-choice job placement.

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Millennials are now the largest part of the U.S. workforce, meaning their flight could spell massive problems down the road for the world’s most destructive companies. To win back the youth, a series of recent ads from the American Petroleum Institute, the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying arm, announced “This ain’t your daddy’s oil…Oil strikes a pose. Oil taps potential. Oil pumps life,” flashing pictures of products made with oil—like spray paint! Because young people like graffiti, right?

Not more than we like being able to breathe air and drink water. Aside from having a few suspicions about an industry whose business model stands directly at odds with a habitable planet, millennial workers also want more from their jobs than a paycheck—including a sense of doing something halfway decent for the world.

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/20372/oil-industry-millennials-climate-change-socialism-capitalism

[RKP5637]

1. Kind of like trying to push that cigarette smoking is really good for you! n/t

[exboyfil]

2. They also may continue to increase

the push on the demand side. If they can only get organized towards more transit options.

[hatrack]

6. And you touch on a more direct issue here . . . .

Heavy student loan debt and shitty low pay make that shiny new car something that, I suspect, lots of Americans under 30 pretty much write off at the outset of adulthood.

[AJT]

3. I don't think older Americans, like me, understand that

younger people will never have any feeling of job security and that affects how they view the work they do.

[Not Ruth]

4. The oil industry is the enemy of climate change

[lunasun]

5. Screw fuel fossil pushers, please over consume for my stock holdings type and Millenial dissers

[TlalocW]

7. I'm really digging millennials

If the things people say they're destroying are true - they've got my support. So far, I've seen they're destroying

Paper napkins
The diamond industry/wedding ring industry
Golf courses
The Olympics
Wine corks (almost)
Malls
The suit

TlalocW