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{Book Review} “American Teens’ Knowledge of Climate Change” |
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by Saba Iakobidze | 23-06-2019 18:14
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Submitted by Saba Iakobidze, Regional Ambassador in Georgia of the 22nd Eco-generation Program Tbilisi, Georgia When Tunza assigned us a book review, I had a hard time finding the right book, but I think that I made the right choice by choosing “American Teens’ Knowledge of Climate Change”, a book which is the study of the University of Yale about environmental awareness of teens compared to adults issued in 18 April 2011. The investigators were Anthony Leiserowitz, Nicholas Smith and Marlon, Jennifer R., all professors at Yale. Questions varied from “How sure you are that global warming is happening?” to questions involving charts about gases that trap heat from earth’s surface. This book was very influential for me because it made me learn several facts that I was not aware of, like the fact that the system in which climate is working is called threshold, which means that climate on earth is mostly stable and can recover from small climate change, but if it is big, the climate will change forever, so that means that climate has its limits (31 teens knew about that fact compared to 34 adults). Also, the fact that is worth mentioning is that carbon dioxide rose with an exponential increase over the past 500 hundred years, which means that it only started rising in the industrial era and is continuing to increase over time. If we speak in general, according to this book, teens have the same or less awareness about climate change than adults. 54% of teens say that global warming is happening, compared to 63% of adults and 62% of teens acknowledge the fact that switching to renewable energy sources are more sustainable than fossil fuels compared to 63% of adults. Authors of the book claim that teens have a higher understanding of crucial topics like the statement that climate change is caused mostly by human actions or that carbon dioxide traps heat from the earth’s surface. I would like to recommend this book to all young people interested in environmental issues. It gave me a lot of knowledge about environmental awareness of my peers and now I know what to address during my awareness-raising sessions, also as I mentioned before I got knowledge of different facts that I wasn’t aware of, I really recommend this book and hope you will find it as interesting as I did. Link of the book: http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication-OFF/files/American-Teens-Knowledge-of-Climate-Change.pdf |
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5 Comments
Hi Saba,
Thank you for the book review and I would love to read your book in my leisure time as it seems that this book contains some really good contents related to climate change. As climate change is a serious problem and issue these days, I hope that this book has given you some good understanding about the current climate change issues and inspired you to think about what we should do and think next for the future.
Louis Mentor
Posted 02-07-2019 00:54
Hello Saba
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about book review of “American Teens?? Knowledge of Climate Change”
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 29-06-2019 13:21
Hello Saba
Thank you for sharing your book review on “American Teens?? Knowledge of climate change”. It??s quite disappointing that teens have the same or less awareness about climate change than adults. I expected it to be higher than that of adults as I believe interests in climate change and global warming has been increasing as the time passes. This book definitely emphasizes the necessity of sound environmental education. Keep up the good work!
Wonhee Mentor
Posted 26-06-2019 17:15
Hey there Saba!
Thank you for recommending this book to us as it is very interesting and does draw to us the importance of teaching ourselves about our environment and its importance. Though adults and youth were somewhat equal in the general knowledge of climate chnage, I see that the youth could understand the deeper, more crucial issues pertaining to climate change and we need more of that to be seen in all youth. We are the future generation after all and we need to be as ready for the future even though the current generation seem not to.
And tot hat, I would like to say thank you for reporting Saba!
With gratitude,
Rosa
Posted 24-06-2019 17:04
Thank you for the recommendation SABA, I would definitely read the book.
The thing that Earth can patch small changes in itself is also a new fact for me.
Thank you for the amazing report !!
Loved it
Posted 23-06-2019 23:50