The Youth Climate Uprising

The Youth Climate Uprising
Author: David Fopp
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2024-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3839470315

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines - from (drama) education and economics to psychology - help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?

Youth Climate Courts

Youth Climate Courts
Author: Thomas A. Kerns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1000508811

This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it. Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth prosecuting attorneys, and youth jury members, and put their local city or county government on trial for not meeting its human rights obligations. Kerns describes how a Youth Climate Court works, how to start one, what human rights are, what they require of local governments, and what governmental changes a Youth Climate Court can realistically hope to accomplish. The book offers young activists a brand new, user-friendly, cost-free, barrier-free, powerful tool for forcing local governments to come to terms with their obligation to protect the rights of their citizens with respect to the climate crisis. This book offers a unique new tool to young climate activists hungry for genuinely effective ways to directly move governments to aggressively address the climate crisis.

Challenge Everything

Challenge Everything
Author: Blue Sandford
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1843654644

A call to action from an inspiring young environmental activist Written by the coordinator of Extinction Rebellion Youth London, this book asks the reader to challenge everything. Challenge big business. Challenge government. Challenge yourself. This is no greenwashing book--it's a call to action. A manifesto for how young people can help to save the planet by questioning everything about modern life and acting upon their conclusions. Included is advice on how to stop following the rules and take control as a consumer, challenging big business. The book also covers how to take direct action, challenge the government and support other groups fighting the same fight. It will help the reader to change their mindset, become independent, question everything, and challenge themselves.

Youth to Power

Youth to Power
Author: Jamie Margolin
Publisher: Hachette Go
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0738246670

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations." --- Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.

Speaking Youth to Power

Speaking Youth to Power
Author: Mark Terry
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031142985

This book examines the methods and approaches currently being taken by the global community of youth in influencing environmental policymakers of the United Nations. It is divided into two sections: The Groundswell Approach, exploring the use of social media and mass gatherings aimed at raising public awareness of the issue of climate change; and The Direct Approach, a participatory methodology that encourages collaboration directly with the policymaker and youth in the discussions and creation of progressive climate policy for the world. The book also delivers a detailed analysis of the United Nations’ only database of youth-produced documentary films related to climate change research, impacts, and proposed solutions: the Youth Climate Report, arguing that film is a powerful and effective communications tool for the policymaker. The book proposes two frameworks and explores their in-field applications for successful youth climate activism.

Climate Change and Youth

Climate Change and Youth
Author: Linda Goldman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000570797

Climate Change and Youth is a pioneering book that opens the door to understanding the profound impact climate change has on the mental health of today’s young people. Chapters provide age-appropriate language for a meaningful dialogue and resources for acknowledging children’s voices, separating fact from fiction about environmental issues, encouraging participation in activism, creating tools to reduce stress, and highlighting inspirational role models and organizations for action. The book includes firsthand examples, research, children’s work, interviews, and terminology. It also shares age-appropriate resources and websites relating to climate change and challenges. Filling a large void in the literature on this topic, this essential resource offers techniques and tools that professionals and caring adults can use to address the stresses associated with climate change and offer strategies for hope, resilience, and action.

Movement Makers

Movement Makers
Author: Nick Engelfried
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre:
ISBN:

Movement Makers tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the youth climate movement grew into a true mass uprising, drawing on interviews with over 100 current and former activist leaders.

The Sunrise Movement

The Sunrise Movement
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728482720

The Sunrise Movement is a youth-led group combating climate change. In 2017, eight activists organized around the goals of making the environment an urgent priority, creating clean-energy jobs, and electing leaders willing to make a stand. Discover their plans for a greener future.

Tomorrow Is Too Late

Tomorrow Is Too Late
Author: Grace Maddrell
Publisher: Black Spot Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1911648330

In Tomorrow Is Too Late, Grace Maddrell collects testimonies of activism and hope from young climate strikers, from Brazil and Burundi to Pakistan and Palestine. These youth activists are experiencing the reality of the climate crisis, including typhoons, drought, flood, fire, crop failure, and ecological degradation, and are all engaged in the struggle to bring these issues to the centre of the world stage. Their strength and determination show the urgency of their cause, and their understanding that the generations above them have failed to safeguard their environment. With contributors aged between eight and twenty-five, this is an inspiring collection of essays from the most vital generation of voices in the global struggle for climate justice, and offers a manifesto for how you can engage, educate, and inspire change for a more hopeful future.

Movement Makers

Movement Makers
Author: Nick Engelfried
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1987-12-21
Genre:
ISBN:

An engaging recent history of the youth climate movement in the United States, with insights from over 100 movement leaders.