How young people are navigating climate change | Here & Now - WBUR News
How young people are navigating climate change | Here & Now
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How young people are navigating climate change
If left unchecked, climate change will most certainly lead to disastrous consequences. We’re already seeing it happen: wildfires turning skies across the country orange, summer temperatures reaching record highs and a megadrought in the West. Young people are among the most concerned about climate change, seeing as they're the ones going to inherit the world.
Here & Now host Scott Tong speaks with high school students Leanne Nasser and Emma Weber about how climate change is impacting their plans for the future.
This segment airs on December 13, 2023. Audio will be available after the broadcast.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.