Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes

Katharine Lee; Saffron O'Neill; Leda Blackwood; Julie Barnett

doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01361-1

Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes

Katharine Lee, Saffron O'Neill, Leda Blackwood, Julie Barnett

University of Exeter

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Abstract

The school climate-strike movement has become a powerful force, shaping how people engage with climate change. Here we use a qualitative interview methodology to give voice to adolescents in the United Kingdom. We show how our participants—strikers and non-strikers alike—were united in framing climate change as an issue of intergenerational injustice, suggesting they may share one of the conditions for a politicized collective identity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	528-531
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	12
Issue number	6
Early online date	12 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01361-1
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2022

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We thank the 22 participants who took part in this research. The research was funded by an ESRC studentship awarded to K.L., grant number ES/J50015X/1.

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