The human voice is a sonic fingerprint - and Greta Thunberg’s tells a powerful story.
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From media coverage to story books, children are consistently represented as prophets or puppets in the midst of climate emergency. It’s time for that to change.
Economic and political assessments of climate change have for years helped justify inaction. Now, young environmentalists worldwide are shifting the debate to focus on values, ethics and justice.
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.
Traversing the Atlantic with a low-carbon footprint is possible – but only if you have time and money to spare.
Populism focuses on charismatic individuals. Environmentalism is all about collective action on collective solutions. How do they come together?
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.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet’s most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
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?
These youngsters have ample fervor, and they are dramatically photogenic. Dismissing them as being fake or lightweight can spell trouble for members of the establishment.
Young people don’t get to vote on the issues of the day, but that doesn’t mean they can’t build power and make their voices heard.
Gen Z is best positioned to influence business practices, rather than global climate agreements, where political gridlock appears to be the status quo.
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Senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Water Futures & School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
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Researcher in Climate Change Governance, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Science Education, University of York
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Assistant Professor of Education, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Fellow in Education, Deakin University
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Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer, Department of Social & Policy Sciences and PhD Candidate in Education
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Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia