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2019
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Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
Fifteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls no punches in calling out the world’s leaders on their inaction on climate change.
University of Manchester main building
University of Manchester main building
With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change discourse and asks how can children move us beyond our current political impasse?
Fifteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls no punches in calling out the world’s leaders on their inaction on climate change.
“You say you love your children above all else, yet you are stealing their futures in front of their very eyes,” she said to a packed auditorium at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP24) in Katowice in December ...