How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown

Episode 130 September 15, 2024 00:53:58
How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown
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How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown

Sep 15 2024 | 00:53:58

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How should we speak with children about climate change?  Should young children be taught about climate change, and how? During the Cold War, the existential threat of nuclear holocaust was always present but there was, at least, a chance that the missiles would not be launched.  Climate change is also an existential threat but it is already happening.  Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a thoughtful conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley, managing director of Project Drawdown, who has written and spoken about these questions. She  holds joint Ph.D.s in environment & resources and educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she studied how video games can encourage systems thinking about complex environmental topics.

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[00:00:08] Good planets are hard to find out. Temperate zones and tropic climbs and true currents and thriving seas and winds blowing through breathing trees and strongholds on safe sunshine. [00:00:26] Good planets are hard to find. [00:00:34] Good planets are in demand. [00:00:37] Clean beaches and sparkling sands and land masses and room to spare jets, streams, and perfect air. [00:00:49] High forests in the low wetlands. Good planets are in demand, and the mind don't know yet. The hard case let the blind man go to destiny. [00:01:15] Good planets are rear ending rain falling on crops and sea. [00:01:22] Big rivers and good topsoil. [00:01:26] Fuel sources from cane to ocean grain garden is good weather through and if the heart can't see, let it bind down the destiny. [00:02:22] Good planets and scarce and fuel the earth horn herms and caribou, strong food chains and tasty wheels. And the textiles plants are healing mountains and skies.

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