Climate change: worse than cooties

British kids: smarter than the rest of us 2

A survey of 11-14-year-old Britons found that they are more concerned about recycling and global warming than they are about having a girlfriend or boyfriend or doing their homework.

Some 74 percent of so-called "tweens" in the U.K. were concerned about climate change, while only 41 percent noted concern over dating, or whatever you'd call it at that age. About 64 percent expressed concern about their schoolwork.

Cooties Lurgy also ranked high on the list of concerns, as did getting American adults to be half as concerned as pre-pubescent kids in the rest of the world about cataclysmic climate change.

Kate Sheppard is Grist’s political reporter.

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  1. planetthoughts Posted 5:42 pm
    17 Nov 2006

    Climate changeI hope that also indicates that kids in Britain and gradually around the world will have a new set of priorities as adults, because our current adult set of governments are, with one or two countries excepted, doing almost nothing to avoid climate change as well as depletion of all kinds of natural resources.
    There will need to be educational opportunities for children and teenagers so that they can become informed activists.



    David Alexander

    PlanetThoughts.org



    Love your Planet.

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  2. Newsquoter Posted 8:32 pm
    23 Nov 2006

    Young people are concerned about climate changeVicki Felgate of Friends of the Earth (UK) says that many young people think that not enough is being done to combat climate change and are worried about how it will affect the world:

    Not enough done to combat climate change say young people, who will face the effects

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