The fear of climate change is transforming young identities

Rallies planned across Australia on Friday drew thousands of students who walked out of school to protest inaction on climate change.

Young people's sense of self, identity, and existence
  is being fundamentally altered by climate change.

These Australian students joined children from more than 82 countries who are striking to highlight systemic failure to address climate change.

But the strikes represent more than frustration and resistance. They are evidence of an even bigger process of transformation.

My research investigates how young people's sense of self, identity, and existence is being fundamentally altered by climate change.

Read the piece from The Conversation on ABC News by Blanche Verily - “The fear of climate change is transforming young identities.”

Waggers or future leaders? Students skip school to fight climate change

Students across Australia will skip school en masse to protest inaction on climate change, drawing both praise and criticism from pundits and politicians.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison told students to
 stay in school, urging "less activism". 

“We are school kids temporarily sacrificing our education in order to save our futures from dangerous climate change,” School Strike 4 Climate organisers said of the Friday protest.

While former Gillard government education minister and longtime environmental activist Peter Garrett applauded the students, the Prime Minister, many commentators and parents have slammed them as shirkers.

“The patronising idiocy of climate-deniers is contemptible,” Mr Garrett said on Thursday.

Read the story from The New Daily - “Waggers or future leaders? Students skip school to fight climate change.”