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Strangely, not that many are reducing their own carbon footprints. They’re taking lots of unnecessary fossil fueled trips, using massive amounts of energy for their smartphones and streaming shows, vids, and movies, buying lots of fast fashion, having lots of food delivered via fossil fueled vehicles, and more. Is it really a revolution if they yammer and protest but don’t actually do a thing in their own lives?

Climate change is driving a global youth revolution

The Climate Generation looks like Atlas Sarrafo?lu, a boyish 16-year-old with a shy smile, Nike high tops, and a cardboard sign of accusation: “Your mistakes, our future.” He has it resting next to him by a park bench in Istanbul along the banks of the Bosporus, where growing up he played soccer and listened to rap music.

The sign, in some ways, is the easiest of his protests in his authoritarian-leaning country. Earlier this year, the teen filed a lawsuit against the Turkish government demanding it fulfill the commitment it made, along with most of the world, to lower the amount of heat-trapping gases it sends into the atmosphere.

Maybe a court action, he hoped, would make the grown-ups pay attention. He knew other young people had tried that in their countries.

Do they understand that they are suing to get the government to crack down on their own life choices? To control them and take away their freedom and money?

Jakapita Kandanga, a 26-year-old Namibian climate activist, is also working to respond to the world’s increasingly disrupted weather patterns, from floods and droughts to heat waves and fires. She has felt the impact of these changes. During her childhood, when the rains stopped in rural Namibia, Ms. Kandanga’s father couldn’t sell his cattle – and she couldn’t attend school.

They actually believe this claptrap. That’s what cult indoctrination does.

“I just want that everybody has equal resources to survive the climate crisis,” she says. Everyone should have access to education, she adds: “Everyone should have the tools to survive.”

Yeah, well, life ain’t fair, sweetie. How, exactly do they want to redistribute all the resources? Sounds a lot like Marxism.

Climate change is shaping a mindset revolution.

If the Industrial Revolution rippled across the globe and human consciousness with new definitions of progress, time, responsibility, and work, the climate crisis is redefining those conceptions. In our travels, we met innovators and regenerators, activists and adapters, conservationists and challengers. All of them, in their own ways, are pushing back against the silos in which we’ve understood our world in industry, environment, or geography. They are seizing on a crisis moment to tackle the inequalities and injustices that have long saddled their nations – crafting a new ethos about consumption, “progress,” and what it means to have a good life.

Let’s see them practice what they preach, and I might consider what they’re selling.