Climate activists are stepping up efforts to protect your children – Are you getting good results?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Unable to win over adults, climate activists appear to be stepping up efforts to impress upon their views on children entrusted to their care, with strategies ranging from Climate-themed early learning stories to youth activism workshops.
Make them young again;
Why children’s stories are powerful tools to combat climate change
MAREK OZIEWICZ 6 MINUTES OF READING 14, 2022
The strength of children’s stories lies largely in the audience: in How open are young people to new ideas?. Their experimental dynamics are familiar to any parent: Children invent new words, do things differently, and ask “why” about almost everything we adults take for granted.
For teachers, children’s nonconforming curiosity is at the same time a source of joy and frustration. We know this curiosity is at the heart of learning and we strive to keep it alive by fighting educational systems built on standardized factory model. And while some see the “rebellion” of youth as a stage – a way to grow up – what if it is really a refusal to conform to adult wrongdoings? receive?
In times of climate change and biodiversity loss, Children’s imaginative ability to substitute for the way things are can be the most powerful driver of the socioeconomic transformation we need. It is the curiosity of children that allows young climate activists to like Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Greta Thunberg to imagine that people like you and me, together, can change the system to work for the planet. It is the childlike honesty that empowers young climate strikers to say, like the kid in “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” adults are caught up in the illusion of self-serving on eternal growth in the market economy. And it really takes childlike strength to believe that a sustainable, equitable, and diverse future can be achieved. even when corporations are acting as if there is no tomorrow.
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Imagine that we teach climate literacy from kindergarten through high school and across all subjects. Imagine us providing our students with story-rich examples to help them understand what is at stake and how they can be agents of change. Imagine us also empowering them with the vocabulary and concepts to articulate a vision of an equitable, sustainable future. And imagine that we provide our teachers with a resource where they can find books, movies, apps, and other formats — including lesson plans — to teach climate literacy one-on-one. effectively.
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We do this because we recognize that in our current socioeconomic system, any meaningful action on climate change is indeed a child’s dream. But if this childishness — boldness, outspokenness and hope — is the only way forward, then tackling climate change makes a great job for children’s stories. .
Read more: https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/01/14/climate-change-childrens-stories
Youth workshop to create more like-minded children like Greta Thunberg;
Climate change: Inadequate government response is fueling climate anxiety among young people
January 14, 2022 by World Economic Forum
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of European Sting with World Economic Forum.
Author: Stefan Klebert, CEO, GEA
- More than half of young people worry about the future of the planet, according to a new survey.
- 75% describe the future as “scary”.
- Despite the lack of action by global governments, young people are taking action.
A study from The Lancet Planetary Health has concluded governments around the world must protect the mental health of young people by taking action against climate change.
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What are young people doing to help solve the crisis?
Despite the government’s awareness of its inaction, Melati Wijsen and her sister Isabel are training a generation by giving them the tools to make a difference.
YOUTHTOPIA suggestions Local workshops and on-site training for young people who want to be “changers”. YOUTHTOPIA is the couple’s second project after they helped bring about a ban on single-use plastic bags six years ago in Bali – a movement called Bye Bye Plastic bags.
Greta Thunberg and other young climate activists sat before the Swedish parliament daily for three weeks in August 2018 to protest the lack of action on climate change. As a result, she launched Fridays for future school climate strikes.
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Our children are not a “powerful tool” for others to use, to further a political agenda that parents have largely rejected.
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