https://jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are-not-ok-c518fffb475
"Today I went to give a climate talk at my old high school in Geneva — and was
given a masterclass in our failings. This is the story of a day that shook me
up.
I have given climate talks at high schools before. In 2019, I was invited by
the first Geneva climate strikers to go around the high schools on the morning
of their first strike. I went, with a friend, racing on our bikes from school
to school to school, as many as we could reach during the morning. Back then,
the mood was electric, excited, engaged. The students had taken control of the
agenda: they were going to put the concerns and needs of their generation front
and centre. They were going to get things moving. There were lots of questions
on climate science, projections, impacts, actions. Everyone was excited to take
part, to learn.
Fast forward three years (and a pandemic) later, and the mood could not have
been more different. I sensed it as I was speaking, a general muttering in the
auditorium full of 16–17-year-olds, that sometimes ebbed a bit, but never
really went away. I thought the students might be bored by the specific aspects
I was talking about. Sources of emissions, trends, specific impact
probabilities, types of mitigation actions … I raced through the topics, hoping
to reach one they would be interested in. And at the end, during the Q&A, it
finally came out."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
