{"id":312379,"date":"2024-03-24T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=312379"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:59:23","slug":"how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-questions-from-10-14yr-old-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=312379","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow long before climate change will destroy the Earth?\u201d: Questions from 10-14yr Old Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"380\" data-attachment-id=\"312381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=312381\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0-Climate-change-45\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?fit=723%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?resize=723%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/03\/22\/how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-questions-from-10-14yr-old-kids\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My question \u2013 where is the climate class action lawsuit on behalf of kids who suffered mental health damage at the hands of climate educators?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?\u2019: research reveals what Australian kids want to know about our warming&nbsp;world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: March 21, 2024 6.04am AEDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/chloe-lucas-132984\">Chloe Lucas<\/a>&nbsp;Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/charlotte-earl-jones-1193356\">Charlotte Earl-Jones<\/a>&nbsp;PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/gabi-mocatta-957071\">Gabi Mocatta<\/a>&nbsp;Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, and Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/gretta-pecl-128477\">Gretta Pecl<\/a>&nbsp;Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/kim-beasy-447030\">Kim Beasy<\/a>&nbsp;Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/rachel-kelly-1222332\">Rachel Kelly<\/a>&nbsp;Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) Consortium, Memorial University, Canada, and Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day, more children discover they are living in a climate crisis. This makes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanplh\/article\/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3\/fulltext\"><strong>many children feel<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<strong>sad, anxious, angry, powerless, confused and frightened about what the future holds.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research and public debate so far has largely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhrjournal.org\/2014\/07\/climate-change-childrens-rights-and-the-pursuit-of-intergenerational-climate-justice\/\">failed to engage<\/a>&nbsp;with the voices and opinions of children \u2013 instead, focusing on the views of adults.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3\">Our research<\/a>&nbsp;set out to change this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked 1,500 children to tell us what they wanted to know about climate change. The results show climate action, rather than the scientific cause of the problem, is their greatest concern. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Australia, research shows&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/264546580_Children's_Fears_hopes_and_heroes_Modern_childhood_in_Australia\"><strong>43% of children<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<strong>aged 10 to 14 are worried<\/strong>&nbsp;about the future impact of climate change, and&nbsp;<strong>one in four believe the world will end before they grow up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest group of these questions (15%) asked for predictions of future events. Some 5% of questions implied the planet, or humanity, was doomed. They included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will all the reefs die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How long will we be able to survive on our planet if we do nothing to try to slow down\/reverse climate change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-research-reveals-what-australian-kids-want-to-know-about-our-warming-world-226122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-research-reveals-what-australian-kids-want-to-know-about-our-warming-world-226122<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abstract of the study;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Analysis of children\u2019s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Chloe H. Lucas<\/a>,<a href=\"mailto:chloe.lucas@utas.edu.au\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Charlotte A. Earl-Jones<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Gabi Mocatta<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Kim Beasy<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Rachel Kelly,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3#\">Gretta T. Pecl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children across the world are facing physical, emotional, and social impacts of climate change. Despite burgeoning scientific and political climate discourse, the voices and opinions of children are underrepresented, as previous research has focused on the opinions of adults. This lack of representation contributes to feelings of disempowerment and betrayal. We investigate children\u2019s priorities for climate knowledge, reporting on questions asked by approximately 1,500 Australian school students as part of a climate literacy engagement project. They reveal remarkable depth of consideration about climate change, with a stronger focus on impacts and action than on scientific causes.\u00a0<strong>\u201cWhat can we do?\u201d was the core concern of 40% of questions<\/strong>, which often emphasized individual responsibility. Urgency and frustration were evident in questions about climate impacts posing an existential threat to life. Findings demonstrate the importance of considering children\u2019s valid concerns when making decisions that affect their education, well-being, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully some kids may be quietly receiving advice from parents or grandparents not to attend climate marches or commit acts of eco-terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026\u00a0<strong>Social hierarchies perpetuated through family, school, and media norms support children making individual choices<\/strong>\u00a0within existing systems\u00a0<strong>but also delegitimize collective action that might disrupt these systems.<\/strong>\u00a0This tension is described by Karsgaard and Davidson, who document a participatory research project involving 99 school students from 13 countries that led to the presentation of a white paper on childhood climate citizenship to the IPCC. The authors found that while the children participating in their project most often saw climate change as an issue of justice, they were limited in their ability to imagine different ways of dealing with this issue by the dominant framings of individualized responsibility and government leadership.\u00a0<strong>Despite their age, children felt responsible<\/strong>\u00a0for their participation in economic systems that damage the environment: \u201cWhen describing how they might act to address climate change and climate injustices, students tended toward individualist behaviors in response to\u00a0<strong>a deep sense of guilt over consumptive practices<\/strong>\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/fulltext\/S2590-3322(24)00100-3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How did we let this education disaster happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is zero chance anthropogenic climate change in the foreseeable future will make the world uninhabitable for humans.<\/strong>&nbsp;The proof is that our monkey ancestors thrived in a much hotter world. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum<\/a>, 5-8C hotter than today, was the age of monkeys.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.0511296103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our monkey ancestors thrived on the abundance of the hothouse PETM, and colonised much of the world<\/a>, only retreating when the cold returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If a bunch of monkey ancestors with brains the size of matchboxes could figure out how to thrive in a hothouse world, we could certainly manage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having said that, it is doubtful if anthropogenic CO2 could recreate anything like the hothouse conditions of the PETM, even if we burned every scrap of recoverable fossil fuel on the planet. Not only is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/03\/17\/negligible-future-warming-from-co2-ch4-n2o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the CO2 band of the atmosphere almost completely saturated<\/a>, which severely limits the impact of additional CO2 on global temperature, the Earth has experienced significant geological changes since the PETM such as the establishment of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antarctic Circumpolar Current<\/a>&nbsp;33 million years ago, which continues to exert a substantial cooling effect on the global climate. The Earth\u2019s current geology is currently aligned so strongly against warming, from a geological perspective we are in the middle of an ice age, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaternary_glaciation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quaternary Glaiciation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But kids are not being taught this basic science, this unequivocal proof that even if global warming occurs,&nbsp;<strong>global warming is not a threat to human survival and prosperity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What really outraged me, a sizeable fraction of kids (1 in 4) believe the world will end before they grow up. Some of them feel guilty about \u201cconsumptive practices\u201d they believe are wrecking the planet, which presumably includes eating meat and other high carbon, high calorie foods which kids need to develop to their maximum potential. Even worse, those children have been made to feel a deep sense of responsibility \u2013 even though, as kids, they have very little responsibility for the state of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How many of those one in four kids who believe the world is about to end will turn to hard drugs<\/strong>&nbsp;or other self destructive behaviours, to escape the pain and guilt and feelings of responsibility, which have been inflicted on them by climate educators? Because&nbsp;<strong>we know climate despair is driving kids to abuse hard drugs<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2019\/09\/27\/drug-inquiry-fear-of-climate-change-is-destroying-the-lives-of-young-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leading rehab specialist Dr Wodak (retired), testified in a government inquiry in 2019 that fear of climate change is a major motivation for kids giving up on life.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many of those 73,000+ people who die of Fentanyl overdoses every year in the United States, were kids whose climate educator convinced them there was no point trying to pursue life, liberty and happiness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Future generations will look on our era of \u201cclimate education\u201d as an age of collective child abuse<\/strong>, and will wonder why nobody stood up to the abusers and put a stop to it. Because there will be a tomorrow, and a day of reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps it will be the kids themselves who put a stop to educational child abuse, by suing schools and education authorities for lying to them about the dangers posed by global warming, and causing them to make harmful life choices.&nbsp;<strong>This outrageous situation is just begging for a smart lawyer to launch the mother of all class actions, on behalf of drug addicts and mental health patients whose lives were ruined by climate educators.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be a a tomorrow and a day of reckoning, even if 1 in 4 of the kids who will one day participate in that reckoning do not currently believe that there will be a tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My question \u2013 where is the climate class action lawsuit on behalf of kids who suffered mental health damage at the hands of climate educators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":312381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827807,691818056,691819743,691818087],"class_list":{"0":"post-312379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australian-kids","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-propaganda","11":"tag-global-warming","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0-Climate-change-45.jpeg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1jgn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":403242,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403242","url_meta":{"origin":312379,"position":0},"title":"Aussie Climate Activists are Still Brutalising the Kids","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"19\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"What I\u2019d really like to know, what kind of teacher can tell kids such horrible things? 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