How To Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change
How To Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change is now live on the Hope. Act. Thrive podcast with our special guest, Harriet Shugarman.
Why you’ll want to listen to this episode.
In this episode, hosts Sally and Helen talk with Harriet about how to have climate conversations with our kids.
How do we navigate through the fire to a better future?
Where do we start, with talking about climate change with our kids?
How do we talk about this - without terrifying our kids?
When do you have “the conversation”?
How do we become part of the unstoppable wave that is climate action?
Why we were thrilled to chat with Harriet.
Harriet Shugarman is the 2021 Waterspirit Suzanne Golas Awardee, a 2020 New York City Climate Hero, and a 2019 featured speaker at the Global Engagement Summit at United Nations Headquarters. Executive Director of ClimateMama, founder of the NYC Climate Reality Chapter, and award-winning author of “How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change, Turning Angst into Action" – she is an influencer and connector in the climate movement. Harriet is an economist and professor and sits on numerous boards, including as board chair of Young Voices for the Planet. She is also a mama to young adults, Elliot and Alana.
Find out more about Harriet Shugarman on Twitter, Instagram, or the ClimateMama website.
Words from Harriet you won’t want to miss.
“We can’t hide from the reality of what’s happening. But we also need to understand the gravity of it, and that we’re currently living an emergency. We’ve got to get comfortable with that.”
“Allowing ourselves to be in that space of being overwhelmed but then coming out of it and taking those actions is an important education and opportunity.”
“I meet many young people who really feel that the weight is on them. I think a lot of adults have thrown that onto them too. And that is really unfair. It must be intergenerational. And that gives me a lot of hope and keeps me going.”
“There are so many more people that are awake, that are recognizing what's happening. There are so many arms and shoulders to lean on. To hold me up personally. And all of us up.”
How can you listen?
Listen to this conversation on Apple, Google, or Spotify.
Find out more about Be the Future on Instagram and your Hope. Act. Thrive. hosts Sally Giblin and Helen Hill.
