We’ve known since the 1970s that human activity has had an effect on the environment. In the late 1970s CFC were banned in an effort to help save the Ozone layer. But somehow world governments and multi-national corporations have failed to make meaningful transitions to renewal energy from fossil fuels. Young people in this video are tired of the inaction and rhetoric. What is something that you feel like you can do to address the climate change issue?

Older folks, such as moi, tend to look at huge issues like Climate Change and decide that nothing can be done because nothing will ever change. I don’t know why it seems like we give up so easily or are so easily convinced that nothing can be done. 

Then again, how was it that CFCs came to be banned and the EPA became something? Oh that’s right, young people protested and industry and governments did something about it. Sometimes things change for the better because young people don’t know that things can’t be changed… so they push until the unchangeable is changed. That’s why I have hope, because there are young people speaking up and not settling for “it’s always been this way.” Thank you for speaking up. I hope that part never changes. 

Source: PBS Newshour Classroom, Daily Lessons, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/2023/01/top-stories-ozone-layer-recovers-news-wrap-1-20-23-student-video/