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- Don't let climate change stop you from having children https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html 5 comments
- Hundreds join student's climate-change pledge: No kids until Canada takes action | 18-year-old McGill University student pledges to not have children until she is sure the Canadian government is taking serious steps to battle climate change - and hundreds more are following in her footsteps https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/no-future-no-children-pledge-1.5286721 190 comments worldnews
- Young people consider fewer children as climate change concern mounts. “This new data shows that climate change is jeopardising more than just the environment, with people’s mental wellbeing and future life plans also affected" https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2023/03/young-people-consider-fewer-children-as-climate-change-concern-mounts/ 25 comments environment
- Children should be included in the conversation around climate change and environmentalism (We don’t need to freak them out either!) They are the future! https://yayzyapp.medium.com/how-to-educate-your-children-about-climate-change-their-carbon-footprint-7444ea457fe8 19 comments environment
- Thousands of Australian children are walking out of school to attend protests, calling for action on climate change. Up to 50,000 students are expected at School Strike for Climate rallies across the country https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57181034 886 comments worldnews
- Portugese children sue 33 countries (including US) for climate change at international court https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/03/portuguese-children-sue-33-countries-over-climate-change-at-european-court 53 comments worldnews
- Climate change anxiety is taking a toll on "Younger Generations", psychologists warn By: The Millennial Source,Psychologists warn of eco-anxiety in children,Youth taking action against climate change https://themilsource.com/climate-change-anxiety-younger-psychologists-2020/ 446 comments science
- Children Change Their Parents' Minds about Climate Change: Study of students schooled on the issue showed them going on to shift their elders’ attitudes https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change 9 comments politics
- Children will bear biggest burden of climate change, Lancet report's lead author says | With increasing diarrhea diseases, more dangerous heat waves, air pollution and increases in mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria, man-made global warming is already harming public health https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-health-children-1.5359024 5 comments worldnews
- Listen to the children, Florida. Take action on climate change https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article235515797.html 3 comments politics
- 'It doesn't feel justifiable': The couples not having children because of climate change https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/it-doesn-t-feel-justifiable-the-couples-not-having-children-because-of-climate-change-20190913-p52qxu.html 41 comments nottheonion
- Parents told not to terrify children over climate change as rising numbers treated for 'eco-anxiety' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/15/parents-told-not-terrify-children-climate-change-rising-numbers/ 211 comments worldnews
- A growing number of UK teachers want their pupils to learn more about the climate crisis and are calling for environmental training so they can prepare children for a rapidly changing world, according to a poll. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/21/teachers-want-climate-crisis-training-poll-shows 44 comments worldnews
- US billionaire Michael Bloomberg pledged half a billion dollars on Friday (Jun 7) to fight climate change, saying "our lives and our children's lives depend on it." https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/bloomberg-pledges-us-500m-to-fight-climate-change-11607720 2298 comments worldnews
- Does climate change violate children's right to life, liberty and property? A U.S. court may decide https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-lawsuit-court-to-decide-whether-climate-change-violates-childrens-rights/ 17 comments politics
- Trump’s Orwellian plan to ruin our children’s health and erase their future ; Trump appointee directs USGS to stop looking at any climate change impacts after the year 2040. https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-orwellian-environmental-plan-hurts-children-27b40ff2de3f/ 28 comments politics
- Children can change their parents’ minds about climate change, find North Carolina scientists studying 238 families. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/g 17 comments science
- Children Change Their Parents' Minds about Climate Change https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/ 5 comments politics
- 'The earth has survived many things', Abbott tells children protesting against climate change inaction https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-earth-has-survived-many-things-abbott-tells-children-protesting-against-climate-change-inaction-20190503-p51jts.html 53 comments nottheonion
- Climate change debate attended by just handful of Tory MPs two days after UK's hottest winter day | It comes after Theresa May accused children protesting global warming of wasting teachers' time https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/climate-change-debate-parliament-commons-global-warming-a8803291.html?utm_source=reddit.com 492 comments worldnews
- Ocasio-Cortez: It’s ‘legitimate’ to ask if OK to have children in face of climate change https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/431440-ocasio-cortez-in-face-of-climate-change-its-legitimate-to-ask-if-ok 260 comments politics
- Schoolchildren 'strike' over climate change | Greta tweeted about the UK protests, writing: "British PM says that the children on school strike are 'wasting lesson time'. That may well be the case. "But then again, political leaders have wasted 30 yrs of inaction. And that is slightly worse." https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47250424 5 comments worldnews
- School children to strike over 'lack of climate change action' | More than 50 planned protests are set to take place across the UK, with walkouts being staged all over the world https://news.sky.com/story/school-children-to-strike-over-lack-of-climate-change-action-11637262 343 comments worldnews
- UK school children to strike over ‘lack of climate change action’ https://news.sky.com/story/school-children-to-strike-over-lack-of-climate-change-action-11637262 9 comments worldnews
- Belgian children step up climate protest | For a fourth week, tens of thousands of children have skipped school in Belgium to join protests demanding tougher action against climate change. New impetus came in an open letter from 3,450 Belgian scientists saying "the activists are absolutely right" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47070853? 208 comments worldnews
- Why bother to bear children in a world racked by climate change? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-bother-to-bear-children-in-a-world-racked-by-climate-change/2018/10/12/bda4bf82-cd8a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c941a3a3f38 93 comments politics
- U.S. loses bid to end children's climate change lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-lawsuit/u-s-loses-bid-to-end-childrens-climate-change-lawsuit-iduskbn1ka2sb?feedtype=rss&feedname=domesticnews 4 comments politics
- U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-climatechange-lawsuit/u-s-loses-bid-to-halt-childrens-climate-change-lawsuit-iduskcn1gj2uo 3 comments politics
- The ethics of having children in the era of climate change https://qz.com/1029010/is-it-unethical-to-have-kids-in-the-era-of-climate-change-a-philosophy-professor-explains/ 40 comments philosophy
- Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children 8 comments worldnews
- GOP chairman: Kids are ‘brainwashed’ on climate change: Sen. Jim Inhofe says school children are being “brainwashed” into believing in climate change, and parents need to “un-brainwash” them http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/289414-gop-chairman-kids-are-brainwashed-on-climate-change 22 comments politics
- US government loses important round to children in climate change lawsuit http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9da90e73ae7f44659c4043bdab12ece9/climate-change-lawsuit-21-youths-takes-big-step-forward 4 comments worldnews
- Man from Kiribati Applying to High Court of New Zealand to be Granted Asylum as Climate Change Refugee - has three children who will live long enough to see Kiribati disappear under the Pacific Ocean http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/10/17/policy-politics/pacific-man-seeks-climate-change-asylum 97 comments worldnews
- Jane Goodall on climate change: ‘We’ve just been stealing, stealing, stealing from our children, and it’s shocking’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/10/jane-goodall-on-climate-change-weve-just-been-stealing-stealing-stealing-from-our-children-and-its-shocking/#.uroocdx8mas.twitter 1136 comments politics
- "Did you want to offer your children to be brutally gang-raped and then horribly tortured before being reminded of their parents' socialist beliefs and actions?", reads just one of many emails threatening Australian scientists for speaking out about climate change http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826417.htm? 87 comments science
- Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children. In the first study of its kind, people cite their reasons, in a world that has changed over recent decades due to global temperatures increasing and the ice caps melting, as an extreme concern for the well-being of any future kids https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/climate-apocalypse-fears-stopping-people-having-children-study 62 comments science
- Climate change report warns: The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected | Children will face sharply increased risks of wildfire and asthma, floods, allergies, tick-borne diseases, extreme heat, and displacement due to erosion, according to the report https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/climate-change-report-warns-the-life-of-every-child-born-today-will-be-profoundly-affected-1.4685310 3 comments worldnews
- Children Change Their Parents' Minds about Climate Change - A team of scientists from NC State University found children can increase their parents’ level of concern about climate change because, unlike adults, their views on the issue do not generally reflect any entrenched political ideology. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/ 448 comments science
- Theresa May accuses school children protesting against climate change of wasting lesson time | The PM said children needed to be in school to become the future professionals who can help solve climate change https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-climate-change-school-pupils-protest-lesson-time-teachers-a8781046.html?utm_source=reddit.com 21 comments worldnews
- Michael Gove's daughter went to the school strike climate change protest | The protest, which is currently blocking the road outside the Palace of Wesminster, has seen children chanting "F**k Theresa May " and "Where the f**k is the Government" as they protest against global warming https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/michael-goves-daughter-went-school-14003652 68 comments worldnews