Paul Polman, CEO Unilever One Young World Speech

In many countries between a third and half of all young people
cannot find jobs and are increasingly disengaged from the
process. With 50% plus unemployment in Southern Europe, we
even risk a challenge to democracy. As one of our young leaders
here told me, how can you love this world if you have huge
college loans, cannot afford housing and find it difficult to get a
good job?
Young people themselves are crying out for change – and want to
be part of the solution. Take a look at this short film, ‘A Date with
History’, put together earlier this year by young people from all
over the globe demanding change ahead of the Rio+20 Summit,
which I attended in Brasil this year.
{Film....1’ 30 }
As Brittany Trilford the 17 years old from New Zeeland said;
"I want a future where leaders will stop talking and start acting.
Where we run with natural resources and not against them. “
Don’t we agree?
With 1 billion people going to bed hungry every night, 6 million
children under 5 dying every year from preventable diseases, and
over 2.5 billion people without access to basic sanitation or clean
water, we have our work cut out.
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