How Different Generations Talk About Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYo9nk-Zlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYo9nk-Zlw
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Climate Literacy
This Video builds on the following concepts of Climate Literacy.
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Teaching Tips
- To connect the themes of the video with local and community environmental movements, research what issues have impacted and created action in your own community or region.
- Consider asking students to interview local officials, community leaders, and family members about what climate activism has meant or looked like to them.
- Whether the response is positive or negative, compiling multiple interviews can help to provide a community snapshot.
About the Content
- This resource does not address climate science directly. It focuses on multigenerational environmental activism. This is an important topic related to climate change and can help students understand the context of the current climate protest and the background that led to the modern environmental movement.
- Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
About the Pedagogy
- Over the last few years, it feels like young people have taken over the climate movement. And according to polls, they care more, with 70% of young adults saying they worry about global warming compared to 56% of people over 55. However, people have been marching, protesting, and demanding change on environmental issues since the 60s and 70s. People who are grandparents today were fighting for the climate when they were young people, and many are still at it today.
- Exploring what climate activism looks like now and what it has been like in the past can help students recognize they are not alone in their climate concerns and may find support from older generations.
- Consider using this video to explore the evolution of environmental activism and what lessons can be learned from past and recent movements.
