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Why we should free children from the deadening tyranny of being driven everywhere.
During the pandemic, climate activists are thinking globally and acting digitally.
Greta Thunberg has received a lot of abuse for her campaign to provoke global action on climate change.
The kids are right when it comes to climate change, says an ethicist: adults have a moral and ethical responsibility to take the necessary actions to stop climate change.
Scott Morrison told reporters he discussed climate change with his daughters, aged 10 and 12, but didn’t share, unfortunately, the girls’ views on the subject.
Humans consume excessive resources with little or no benefits to well-being – and the politics of our economy are to blame. To counter the influence of industries in democracy, we must strike.
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.
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 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.
I helped write the IPCC 1.5°C report the number apparently comes from. But the truth is better – and worse – than that.
How can the climate strikers’ demands of system change be met?
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.
In these divided times, young people are uniting to claim a political platform and fight climate change.
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW
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Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, Director of the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, Director of Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, and UNSW Director of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Research Associate in Social Movements, Keele University
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Teaching Fellow in Social Work and Psychotherapy, University of Bath
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Professor in Social Ecology and Ecological Economics, University of Leeds
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Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia
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Executive Dean and Professor of Sustainability, Environment & Education, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health Science, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
