Adam Aron is a professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego. In 2021, he ended his prominent career in cognitive neuroscience to…

Mariana is a teacher and an organizer with Climáximo, a climate justice direct action group in Portugal. Cindy Ye and Adeline Sauberli, seniors at Stuyvesant High…

“A lot of education…is predicated on the idea that things are going to stay more or less the same, and we’re already seeing the ways in which that is not true…”

Dr. Christopher Shaw is a climate communications expert and the former Head of Research at Climate Outreach, where among the reports he worked on is a…

“The second thing that I promised to the 1000s of people that came to my research was…I promise I’m going to return to Europe without touching a plane…”

“It’s either going to be run roughshod over the climate, or change our society.”

“There’s a huge cognitive dissonance, right? People will be thinking about, well how can I make enough money so I can retire with the amount of wealth that I want? While also knowing logically that, okay, yeah, but like, by the time I’m at retirement age, what’s the world even gonna look like? You know, what am I even saving for?”

“What happens if, say the president of France is elected and has a mandate to cut carbon emissions by twenty percent in five years, and if emissions are cut by nineteen percent?

Has the person failed, or not? Given the amount of the challenge, 19 out of 20 could be seen, Wow, that’s good enough, that works! But what about 18? What about 17?”

“The focus on a number is less important than the real bottom line,trying to shape our societies, our economies, our lives in ways that enable as many of us to have a good life as possible, without wrecking the world.”

“By the time you folk have finished university, and are maybe three or four years into your first job, that 10 years that has been spoken about is gone. So there needs to be a space where people like yourselves can feel safe enough to talk about what your fears and hopes are for the future.”

“It’s important that high school students and even younger than high school students understand what exactly is happening to the planet they’re living on.”