Despite calls for climate change to be part of our education, Australia has not designed, implemented nor funded a coherent, educational approach to our climate emergency.
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Mass strikes help target the psychological factors most important for acting on climate change, by emphasizing social norms and reinforcing the effectiveness of collective action.
Climate deniers have joyously laboured to create a world potentially uninhabitable for our children. Our activism has failed, and rebellion may be the only answer.
A research team of youth climate activists and academics is examining how environmentalists learn about solidarity and justice.
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s will close its Australian stores for this month’s global climate strike and pay staff to attend the protest, telling customers “if it’s melted, it’s ruined”.
I have studied radical environmental groups for years – they will be key to keeping government honest.
Climate scientist Mark Maslin talks to his 13-year old daughter about why she’s going to a climate strike.
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
The move has been likened to putting the country on a “war footing”, with climate and the environment at the very centre of all government policy, rather than being on the fringe of political decisions.
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
I helped write the IPCC 1.5°C report the number apparently comes from. But the truth is better – and worse – than that.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet’s most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
The 1930s New Deal created a civilian army of conservationists who planted forests and restored wilderness.
The school strikes are a serious moral challenge to climate inaction, but they must overcome certain challenges to maintain momentum.
How can the climate strikers’ demands of system change be met?
Facing up to the horror of climate change can help us work towards a more sustainable culture. Young people are leading the way.
What’s the best thing I can do to help the climate? How long is the planet going to last? These questions and more answered by a climate scientist.
When politicians caution against student strikes for climate action, they are going against the aims of Australia’s curriculum to develop citizens with a social conscience, willing to take action.
Four pieces of advice for young people wanting to fight climate change.
Climate change will hit young people hardest, yet they cannot access the democratic processes that adults take for granted.
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Water Futures & School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
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Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
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Researcher in Climate Change Governance, University of Leeds
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Senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Education, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Honorary Research Fellow in Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Research Fellow in Climate Science Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor, School of Education, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington