#ClimateDiary 13yo asked me just now: why does noone care about climate change anymore?
They watched this Prince Ea poem, “Sorry” at school last week, and apparently everyone just laughed, nobody cared.
It is very good but it does feel like from a different era - 2024 really does feel different to 2015-20. Not for everyone, of course, but the climate momentum just isn’t there just now. Hope it takes off again soon and that this time it really does change things.
This is a really salient point that I don't hear a lot of people making. My wife teaches high school, and anecdotally, a couple years ago she would always say that the kids didn't question climate change at all. They all understood. Now they often say it doesn't exist, or it's a hoax. She went from being optimistic about "the kids" to totally dismayed.
I’d be glad to chat w your wife’s classroom.
Yes, I may be a climate scientist now… but in an alternate world, I would be 4th generation in the oil business.
I get it.
I can talk to anyone.
I sincerely appreciate that offer! If she were still working in the brick and mortar classroom I bet she'd take you up on it.
She, however, works at a school that's been doing virtual school for decades for a few years now. She has over 100 kids, each of whom she works with individually, one on one, so there's no classroom to talk to.
That’s great. Our education officer at nasa giss started one of the first remote only school options for high schoolers in LA— we do talks to these kinds of groups, too.
LMK if she just needs resources. And otherwise keep up the good work.
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