‘Look at history, everything that was worth doing was once said to be impossible.’ — Youth activist Katie Eder knows young people are the solution to solving the climate crisis.
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In US news and current events today, youth activist Katie Eder sat down NowThis News to explain how young people can fight climate change and lead to real climate action.

‘I think that young people now are becoming more aware of the climate crisis in a way that’s a little bit more concrete, and so we’re really starting to see and understand how the climate crisis is going to affect our futures, and our lives now and down the line. And I think given how much it’s being talked about and just how much more, like, science is available to the public around this issue. I think people are starting to really understand, and it’s becoming less abstract that the climate crisis, if not addressed, will create detrimental issues to the world that we don’t even know—we can even begin to understand as of now. And so I think young people are really scared, honestly.’

‘I think people also are really beginning to understand the threat. You know, the personal threat to their lives, their families lives, their children’s lives, and so they’re really kind of stepping up and hearing that call.’

‘I think it’s going to be really important that world leaders hear the call from young people and really take it into account in their own decision making. I think that, you know, when it comes to world leaders, I think that people are lacking courage a little bit to sort of stand up and say this is something that we need to prioritize and we need to take radical and bold action on. And I think that they need a little bit of a nudge.’

Eder says young people have long been able to influence cultural change

‘I think that that needs to just be met with, you know, when you look at history everything that was worth doing was once said to be impossible. Every change that was ever made was once you know said that it couldn’t happen and it took people specifically young people standing up and saying this is necessary we must do this for everyone else to kind of buy into that and for that cultural shift to happen.’

Here’s what you can do to help

‘A lot of the solutions for the climate crisis exist and a lot of them have yet to be created. And so I think you know there is a space for activism and for organizing for young people to really plug into the grassroots nature of the movement and really help bring it to the forefront of the public mind. But in the years and decades to come when we start to have that cultural and political shift there will be a need for you know these innovative solutions. You know when it comes to environmental science environmental engineering like all of those things are gonna be so key in making sure that we have the knowledge and the resources available to address the size and scale of the crisis.’

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