If you’re growing up in Britain today you will be impacted in two ways – the impact now, plus the impact you will experience for the rest of your life. Your age, gender, ethnicity, and household income will affect how you are impacted, and how severely.
There are few evaluations of government policies on climate or nature. Where these exist, mentions of young people, or even people, were often no more than a few sentences. This is a significant gap.
In fact, people rarely get a mention in government net zero documents. The focus instead is on technical, economic, and political solutions. That may have worked for building windfarms, but the radical lifestyle changes coming next demand the involvement of people – and young people especially. For example, changes to how we eat, travel, and heat and cool our homes.
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