How to talk to kids about climate change

Life Kit

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today's kids are bombarded with the realities of climate change — whether through extreme weather or in the news. These tips will help you and your kids cope with the overwhelming feelings to move beyond helplessness and toward action.

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0:00.0	This is NBR's life kit. I'm Anya Kaminets.
0:02.2	I'm Corey Turner and this is Shuo.
0:04.8	My name is Shuo Pasco-Yang and I am a Baba and an organizer. Baba is dad in Mandarin.
0:14.3	Shuo lives in Terrytown, New York and his daughter is now a toddler.
0:18.7	After my daughter was born, I kind of just started researching like,
0:23.1	what would the world look like in 2100 if we don't do anything? And essentially, you know,
0:28.8	it seems like billions of people would die, which was crazy.
0:33.7	If we don't do anything that is about climate change. And what he learned,
0:38.6	kind of freaked him out. Oh my god, like, what's going on? I have to stop this.
0:42.4	So he made a promise to his baby girl.
0:44.7	I actually wrote a message to her. It's a little bit hard for me to talk about.
0:51.2	But, you know, basically, it's that your future, as it has been promised to me and many others,
1:03.0	is not what that will be. It's not what that will look like.
1:06.9	I didn't know exactly about this before bringing you into this world.
1:12.6	But I'm going to fight as hard as I can to give you the kind of future that I think you deserve,
1:18.6	and that other kids deserve. In this episode, how do parent-through change?
1:24.4	Climate change.
1:35.2	Okay, let's talk kids and climate change.
1:37.8	And we want to flag upfront. And our message today is going to be different,
1:41.4	depending on where your kids are, developmentally and emotionally.
1:45.8	Sure. So when they're still little like she was baby,
1:48.6	primarily this is about you. What to do with your feelings about the kind of world your
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