‘‘What can we do?’’ Kids want to know about climate action not causes

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Climate action is the greatest concern for kids when it comes to climate change, according to researchers who asked 1,500 Aussie kids to tell them what they wanted to know about climate change. The study found that 40% of questions were centred around the question "What can we do?" with kids focusing on impacts and action rather than on scientific causes. The researchers say that while there is a need for education about the physical causes and processes of warming, they found that children are more concerned with what climate change means for them and the things they care about, and about how this problem can be solved for the future of the whole planet.

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Organisation/s: University of Tasmania, Deakin University
Funder: The authors would like to acknowledge funding for Curious Climate Schools Q10 from the Centre for Marine Socioecology, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, and the College of Sciences and Engineering at the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government Climate Change Office.
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