By Nikhil Sabnis, Age 10 After Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October 2022, climate misinformation began spreading like wildfire on the platform–pun intended! Climate misinformation and disinformation create distrust of scientific evidence, confuse the public about the reality of climate change, and create apathy toward climate activism. Musk has fired 4,000 Twitter employees since taking …
By Aida El-Hajjar, age 12
The Conference of the Parties, or COP, is an annual gathering of world leaders to discuss one issue that has occupied billions of minds: climate change. This year’s COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Currently 197 countries participate in the COP. The conference, which was postponed last year because of the pandemic, was considered “a big check-up” to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
With youth that are hyperconnected to the internet and media, not only do we feel the impacts of climate change where we live, but we see natural disasters all over the world online. This is bringing to light one of the more unnoticed effects of climate change: anxiety among young people.
By Oscar Tomasello, age 12 The minimum age required to vote was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1970. Now 50 years later, activists around the country are pushing to lower the voting age again. Tyler Okeke, a 19-year-old organizer with the nonprofit Power California, told NPR that 16-year-olds in particular are poised to translate …
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Around the country, students demand action to prevent more school shootings. Eleanor Hedges Duroy, age 15 A March for Our Lives, a youth-centered movement, has taken root across the nation. Students everywhere are voicing their right to attend classes peacefully without the threat of gun violence, and they are organizing to advocate for change. …
What is peace? Kid Reporter Sadie Price-Elliott explores what it means to advocate for peace at the Shinnyo Center’s Lantern Floating for Peace ceremony in New York City.
What will happen to the earth if temperatures rise by just two degrees? This December, young environmental activists from around the world will join representatives from 200 countries at the annual U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) to agree on a plan to limit the rise of global temperatures and to save our planet.
This summer, at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women (UAI) in Brooklyn, teen girls full of ideas and action participated in Occupy Summer School, a three-week course on how to stage an effective protest.
When students and young people have organized and demanded change, the outcomes have been tremendous. The voices of youth have had a special role in creating positive changes in revolutionary movements from the 20th century through today.
We are all different, but together we can make art!
