What is the best way to inform young people about climate change issues?
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I think youth is aware of the fact that the global warning exist and that its becomes more and more threatening every year. I think what it is important to point it is that there is a lack of awarness. Everybody know that climate change exist but few know exactly why, who are the main actors, how it affects everyday lives, which are the main regions / areas in danger where climate change is already seen. All of these questions can sometimes be answered through a research on the web - since information flows easily - but not everybody will do it or can do it.To remediate to this, I think changes can be done in the domain of education principaly because everybody is concerned by it. It will be a begginning to introduce environnemental issues in the curriculum - or emphasize their part - particulary in sciences classes (multiple chapters, domains of study, experiements). What can also be done is to make young people aware of the fact that climate change not only concern foreign people in foreign lands, that it is distant from them, but it also concern them, in the first place. Youth need this perspective in order to be more aware and to take the next step : action.
Environmental organisations could take into classrooms virtual reality equipment that takes students on a virtual trip around the world showing, not just the effects of environment change, but also the science behind the causes! So, students could travel to the melting ice caps, on to disappearing rain forests, see industrialisation and learn why the Earth is being affected by climate change.
I think young people of today are the most environmentally conscious generation in human history. Look at older generations first.
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