I think in a democracy more people should have a say — including young people.

Knowing it’d never pass, I’d propose a plan like this. The voting age starts at 10, or maybe 12, but you don’t get a full vote at that age. At 12, say, you get 1/10 of a vote. For every year your age increases, your vote total increases by 1/10. So at 13, you’d get 2/10 of a vote, at 14, 3/10, etc.

At 18, it jumps to 10/10 or one vote and then begins to increase by 1/10 a year until the age of 35, where you’d have a huge 2.7 votes — then it starts decreasing again until it eventually goes down to 0.5 of a vote and stays there until your death.

No, it isn’t perfect but we’re seeing now the huge disadvantages of old people having the absolute de facto power they now possess, and that is climate change is going to kill directly and indirectly millions to billions of young people who have no say at all in reversing it or adapting to it. Old people have reaped all the gains, pulled up the ladder behind them and said a big “fuck you” to their children and grandchildren.

That’d be a bit harder to do with a scheme like the above.