CW: Kids these days (+)
The kids who are growing up now, current middle schoolers and high schoolers, are going to make society on this planet very, very interesting in about 10 years. They've been immersed in a much more connected, concious, and aware sort of environment than I feel I did when I was their age. They live in world where access to a massive range of information is a fact, not something they watched get switched on. So they're going to learn from a much younger age how shitty the world can be. and thus have more time to figure out if they care if it affects them, and what they want to do about it if it does.
I'm sure there's at least 2-5 papers or studies some science/college person can get out of studying that.