Distress about the Earth’s future is driving many young people to act.
NationalB Rosas, left, Lucia Everist, center, and Libby Kramer, of Climate Generation, speak to the Minnesota Youth Council, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. The advocates called on the council, a liaison between young people and state lawmakers, to support a bill requiring schools to teach more about climate change. – Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts imprinted with #teachclimate filled a hearing room in the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February.
“The topic is brushed on. If anything, we just learn about, there’s global warming, the planet’s warming up.” “What an unfair reality to have a young person graduate from high school," said Leah Qusba, executive director of nonprofit Action for the Climate Emergency,"without knowing about the biggest existential threat that they’re going to face in their lifetime."followed, then California. More than two dozen new measures across 10 states were introduced last year, according to the National Center for Science Education.
Aware of such opposition, some students interested in climate opt to campaign at their schools rather than through the legislative process. By the time her school offered Advanced Placement Environmental Science, Lara was too senior to enroll in it. AP Enviro doesFor high school junior Siyeon Joo, climate education seems like a no-brainer where she lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, which was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has been affected by several other intense storms and heat waves.
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