Yeah, I don’t know of any kids my son’s age on Facebook. It’s definitely an older generation thing. Instagram, Snapchat, is where the teens are at. I think there are a lot of young people engaged in politics these day (protest around education has been big around here) and very aware of Climate Change. My son knows who’s been to what protest, it’s being discussed in school not by teachers but by students. The protests in Toronto were big, although admittedly not as big as the UK ones going on. My son commented me to the other day that Doug Ford doesn’t care (discussing tree planing programme being cancelled) because he’ll be dead and it will be his generation that will have to deal with the mess we made. Of course, there will be the vacuous self absorbed, but peer pressure is huge. It’s our generation that need to give up on our way of thinking and will find it the hardest. We grew up thinking we can and should do everything we desire.

I follow various scientists/activists on Twitter. The UK is far ahead in it’s public knowledge than most of Canada and even if it was more mainstream then trying to get people to give up their boats etc would be even harder. At least the UK doesn’t even have most of these things to give up, they have green tariffs in place, the infrastructure is in place to decrease car use, people care there. There’s been a huge swing to green parties. Mostly, though I think if I have to give up long haul flying and live in one place, the the UK with it’s easy train/driving access to Europe would be where it’s at.

Who said the cars have to produce carbon? Plenty of EV’s out there..

The UK has powered itself for two weeks on renewable energy, not used coal at all, which is amazing. Solar and wind energy.

That would be the end goal for us, solar panels, electric car.