Surveys showed people were generally pessimistic about the world’s prospects (while being optimistic about their own).
- Richard Eckersley
- The Canberra Times
Children and youth expressed their concerns in particularly graphic ways.
Many foresaw a world in which a growing gap between rich and poor had produced deeply divided and hostile communities; the arms race and international tensions had resulted in…
As the father of three young children at the time, the bleakness of the images left a…