In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses. Climate-related disasters are on the rise, and carbon emissions are soaring. Parents today face the unprecedented challenge of raising children somehow prepared for a planetary emergency that may last their lifetimes. Few guidebooks are on the shelves... Continue Reading →
Continued exposure to a harmful environment will have a catastrophic impact on children’s mental and physical development . At the 2019 UN climate action summit, an angry teenager with a long plait walked into the stage and uttered, “We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money... Continue Reading →
Why should governments place children, young people at the centre of climate change discussions
Climate change – from one kid to another | Bandi Guan | TEDxYouth@GrandviewHeights
What is climate change? And what can kids do about it? In his talk, 8-year-old Bandi explains how the climate is changing and what it means for kids all over the world. More importantly, he discusses how kids can get involved in climate action. Bandi is a precocious 8-year-old who loves to draw and make... Continue Reading →
Kids can help with Climate Change | Henry Lizotte | TEDxHeritageSchool
Henry has steps that people can take (MiPart) to help with climate change. Henry Lizotte has a wonderful family with a mom, dad, and sister that he loves to play games with. He especially likes it When he gets to make up the game. He plans to be a politician one day. He was inspired... Continue Reading →
If you think this might have nothing do with our Climate Emergency, think twice... Mental Health and positive outlook of our children and ourselves for that matter affect us much more than we might realize in tackling the Climate Emergency, not only that--this potential can be a sustainable measure depending how approached. You should see... Continue Reading →
America’s schoolyards are packed with potential.
We won't—if we're honest—be able to tell them that we didn't know what was coming. “There’s no way to describe what’s unfolding before our eyes other than to say that the world is simply burning up—things are bad, but we can take action and avoid an even worse disaster, so there’s always hope.” “I wonder... Continue Reading →
What Fate Awaits Our Kids?
A new analysis shows that people born later will experience vastly more severe weather events Babies born today will experience far more disruptions fueled by climate change than their parents or grandparents. In a study published recently in Science, Wim Thiery of Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and his colleagues combined climate model projections under... Continue Reading →
How Climate Change Will Hit Younger Generations
children by nature are keen…
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to... Continue Reading →
Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, “How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change.” Now I am pleased to report... Continue Reading →
Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis
It appears to be of no concern to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ultraconservative majority how children are collateral damage in its monumental rulings to close the 2021-22 term. First, the conservatives struck down New York’s requirement for gun owners to prove why they should be allowed to pack heat in public. The ruling ignored, among... Continue Reading →
Children Will Suffer the Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Rampage
This article was originally published in Climate & Capital Media. Read it here. When Melissa Burt, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, made a video about the climate crisis, it included images of her daughter, Mia. "There’s some light within her that makes me continue to do the climate science work that I do,"... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 