Fridays for Future: How do we reach the youth? December 6, 2020 from Cold Sun Kalte Sonne By Sebastian Lüning
For two and a half years, children and young people have been protesting against the climate catastrophe as part of “Fridays for Future” (FFF). They are afraid of a climatic end of the world that would allegedly make the earth uninhabitable in 10 years. They feel deprived of their future; some of them have already had to go to psychological treatment because of their fears. Parts of the parents have already let themselves be infected by the climate fear of their children and have joined together in the “Parents for Future” movement in order to be able to participate in the protests. The FFF members received the information about the end of the world from climate activist scientists. They trust them blindly, because the roles in the public climate debate have long been clearly assigned: Climate alarmists are always right,whereas critics of the extreme climate view are either stupid, right-wing extremist or bought. This is convenient because you don't have to listen to the critics' arguments like that. A technical argument would be of little use to the children and adolescents anyway, because they logically have no school-leaving qualifications and may have already voted out of physics and chemistry. There is often little interest in the natural sciences. The Friday demonstrators are all the more interested in the protest as such. At all times, young people have been mad at the older generation. Children are fundamentally critical of the actions of their parents who, in their opinion, have done everything wrong. Maybe it's a kind of reflex against years of upbringing and instructions: finish your soup, you are going to bed now, no cinema without finished homework ...
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