Abstract
Arguably the greatest threat facing society is that posed by irreversible climate change. In tandem with mitigating the effects of climate change, we must now make decisions about issues such as renewable energy, sustainable and safe water supplies, management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, and management of natural disasters. The current school-age generation will see the worst effects of climate change, including greater frequency and intensity of extreme weather events; shortages of water and other necessary resources; and dangers due to pollution and toxicity in human environments and the human food chain. The next generation is coming of age as difficult socio-political choices are being made at local and national levels to manage resources and mitigate environmental damage. It is therefore important to center the voices of children and young people in research aiming to address the social, political, and educational dimensions of geoscience topics, including climate change and related topics. This paper proposes the use of Children’s Research Advisory Groups (CRAGs) to meaningfully include children and young people as co-researchers in geoscience-related research.
Highlights
WHY LISTEN TO CHILDREN ABOUT GEOSCIENCEClimate change is a vast, accelerating, and highly complex threat to human civilisation on our planet, requiring both scientific and socio-political expertise to tackle (Grundmann, 2016)
This paper proposes the use of Children’s Research Advisory Groups (CRAGs) to meaningfully include children and young people as co-researchers in geoscience-related research
Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate, leading to natural disasters, low harvests, biodiversity loss, etc, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Summary
WHY LISTEN TO CHILDREN ABOUT GEOSCIENCEClimate change is a vast, accelerating, and highly complex threat to human civilisation on our planet, requiring both scientific and socio-political expertise to tackle (Grundmann, 2016). It is the generation that will bear the worst of the effects of unmanaged climate change, yet the decisions that determine how well those effects will be avoided or managed are being taken before the current generation of school students can vote or directly influence policy. These students have been making their voices heard via protests, social media activism, and school strikes.
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