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Climate Lessons: A 28Gate Climate Crusader Coaching Children for The Cause.

Please leave them alone, Elena. They have a childhood to enjoy and do not need to share your fears of the future, nor your ambitions to manipulate their parents. Adults have done a pretty impressive job of improving living standards, improving health, improving the environment, and making use of cost-effective ways of mass-producing electricity. They will continue to do so, and looking out for the wellbeing of their own and other people’s children will be an important part of it. Perhaps if people like Elena, no doubt as well-intentioned as anyone could be in wanting to 'protect the planet', would engage more with adults and try to persuade them directly of her concerns it would be better than trying to do so via their children.