Children voice concerns about the future and what lies ahead

The exercise for this cohort was to try to picture what the world would be like in 2070.

Millie, 12, said: “Prices are going up in the shops and everything is getting very expensive,” while others raised fears about animal extinction, artificial intelligence replacing jobs and the long-term effects of climate change.

Navaj added that there might even be “walking microwaves, floating phones and flying cars” in 2070..

Their concerns reflect wider anxieties among young people, according to Hickman.

In 2021 she published a study which asked 10,000 children across the world how they felt about climate change.

She found that: “Emotionally, children are very, very worried [about climate change] but they’re not just worried, they’re also sad.”

More than half of UK children (51 per cent) surveyed said they believed humanity was “doomed”.