How to talk to kids about climate change
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Parents have delicate conversations with their kids on intimacy, violence, even the meaning of life. Now, kids want to talk about climate change. Parents, are you prepared?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Meghna here with a small request before today's episode. |
| 0:03.4 | We really appreciate that you listen to the Onpoint podcast, but we'd like to know a little bit more |
| 0:08.8 | about your listening preferences so that we can serve you better. |
| 0:12.2 | If you've got a few minutes to take the on-point survey, |
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| 0:17.0 | It's at WBU.org |
| 0:18.0 | slash survey, or click the link in the episode show notes. |
| 0:22.0 | Now, on with today's show. |
| 0:24.0 | The United Nations Cop 28 Climate Conference |
| 0:31.8 | is underway in Dubai. |
| 0:34.3 | World leaders are hashing out how to respond to rapid changes in the world's climate. |
| 0:39.5 | The negotiations themselves can be stuffy bureaucratic affairs debates over punctuation or whether to use the word will versus shall in a lengthy policy document |
| 0:50.9 | But on Friday Romanian youth climate activist Mara Gillan took the stage with a decidedly not bureaucratic message for the world's leaders before her. |
| 1:02.0 | You usually tell us that we give you hope, |
| 1:05.0 | but we're not here to give you hope, |
| 1:08.0 | nor are we here to pay the consequences of failed leadership. |
| 1:12.0 | We're here to make you realize our world as we know is in |
| 1:16.2 | your hand and that you, your excellences, have the power to build or to destroy. |
| 1:24.0 | This is on point. I'm Meghachra Bardi. |
| 1:27.0 | A 2021 global survey of people between the ages of 16 and 25 found that almost 60% of them reported being |
| 1:37.0 | very or extremely worried about climate change. In a separate poll of 13 to 29 year olds conducted by PBS |
| 1:45.6 | News Hour and the Generation Lab, 34% of young people said climate change |
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