Are European Forests in Crisis? — A Look into Shared Struggles from Across the Continent

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, my childhood was shaped by hikes into creek-snaked woods, mushroom hunts through autumn-brushed foliage, and summers spent camping beneath some of the world’s most ancient trees. So, as a teenager who had only ever traveled through the Western half of Canada and the United States, I was left in shock upon my first woodland hike in Europe.

STOP GOING HUNGRY, JUST FIND A JOB! 

As young people on the brink of adulthood, existing somewhere between wanting to spend all our money on comic books and video games and needing to actually spend money on utilities, at one point we all encounter the struggle that we don’t actually have any money to spend. An easy solution, of course, is to find a job. Is it really that easy though?