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Young people enjoying the sunshine on the day the Met Office said the climate of the 20th Century was “gone” said they would feel more inspired to act on climate change if everybody else did.
“You don’t want to be the only person doing it and feel like an outsider,” said 19-year-old Evie Jones, who works at Surfside cafe at Rotherslade beach. She described the recent heat as dry and intense. "We are not prepared for it," she said.
Joe Pallett, 17, said he sometimes watched news reports about climate change and thought: “Oh my God, that’s bad.” He said: “But then you think there’s nothing I can do. It (climate change) does feel like it’s inevitable. I know that’s a bad mindset.” Asked by the Local Democracy Reporting Service if he’d be more on board if everyone took action, he replied: “100%.”
Amy Williams, 17, said: “I just think we should all start doing something before it (climate change) goes too far, but I don’t think people know what to do. Personally I do think about it – it’s scary but I don’t think people take it too seriously because they don’t think it will happen but obviously it will soon.”
Josh Cole, 20, said climate change was “very real, very true” and added: “It’s happening and it’s happening at a rapid rate.” He felt it had dropped off the news agenda and said there were things he could do as an individual. “If one million people did those things that’s going to make a difference,” he said.
Ffion Lewis, 18, said change had to come from fossil fuel companies. “If they don’t, then the change won’t be as impactful,” she said. Ffion said she felt a bit powerless at times. “Everyone has to come together,” she said. “I know there have been small global movements – there needs to be a bigger one.”
Her friend Tess Tudgemeaden, 18, said of the bigger movement idea: “Then it (taking action) would be the new normal. That’s what we’ve got to create. I think people now have got the mindset of: ‘Why do I have to do something if my neighbour doesn’t do it?'”
Ffion and Tess work part-time in hospitality and said their shifts have been hot despite fans being provided. Ffion said she sympathised greatly with people in high-rise blocks without air conditioning. “We’re fortunate, we’ve got a garden so I can go and relax in it,” she said.
Jay Pengelly, 18, said he’d noticed the uptake in hybrid and electric cars and felt people were starting to care about climate change and the environment. “It (climate change) is a worry, in a sense,” he said. “As I grow older I think I will starting seeing it more.” For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here.
In the new Curriculum for Wales climate teaching is mandatory up to year 9. “It is taught across many areas of learning and experience, rather than in a single narrow subject area, throughout their education,” said a Welsh Government spokeswoman. In year 10 and 11 the specific learning will depend on the choices pupils make.
Global greenhouse gas emissions combined with deforestation and other land use changes have been warming the planet for decades. The Met Office said the last four years in the UK have all been in the top five warmest years on record. The UK was 1.33C warmer between 2016 and 2025, according to its latest State of the Climate report, compared to the period between 1961 and 1990. It also said two-thirds of the approximate 20cm of sea level rise since 1901 in the UK has happened over the last 30 years.
Mike Kendon, Met Office climate information scientist, said: “Think of this warming as moving north and uphill, with areas like the Vale of York and Lancashire now having similar annual temperatures to those experienced by Greater London in 1961-1990. In the south-east we are seeing the emergence of new warmer climates, while in our northern upland areas we are losing the climatologically coldest habitats from the tops of our mountains. Our climate is on the move – literally.”
He said every year was adding to the body of evidence. “We are right now living in a time of historic and unprecedented change and in terms of temperature, on annual, seasonal, monthly and daily timescales, this evidence shows the climate of the 20th Century has now gone,” he said.
The young people who spoke to the Local Democracy Reporting Service are unlikely to feel nostalgic for a climate they didn’t experience but may do in future years if the one they considered normal slipped away.
The national grid and parts of the health service are already reporting demand previously unthinkable in the summer as vulnerable people suffer in the heat and fans and air conditioning units are switched on. Natural Resources Wales said the environment in Wales is this summer starting to show signs of strain.
Addressing climate change can’t be done in isolation and countries have put forward measures which if enacted in full would slow the rate of warming the world had been on track for, and every fraction of a degree matters.
Dr Jennifer Rudd, of Swansea University, said just 2C of warming would spell mass die-back of coral reefs but she was heartened by the way mangrove swamps, which store a lot of carbon, were recovering after some human help.
Dr Rudd was also excited by the rapid decarbonisation of the UK’s electricity grid, as well as rewilding projects and she cited a study of nearly 130,000 people in 125 countries which found that 89% of respondents wanted more political action on climate change.
Dr Rudd, who has a PhD in chemistry and has worked on solar panels, hydrogen power generation and carbon capture and storage in the lab, works with schools in her role as co-director of the university’s Climate Action Research Network.
She said climate change education had to give learners opportunities to do something about it as well as imparting knowledge. She spoke about pupils at schools who had arranged costume swaps for Halloween and World Book Day and another school where a uniform swap took place to reduce the associated environmental impact of new clothes.
“Individual change feels like a drop in the ocean,” said Dr Rudd. “It’s really important you don’t make people think they can’t be part of the solution. When you get together with another person and another person and another person you can go from individual action to systemic change. That’s the exciting bit, letting people know they have a voice and can effect change.”
Shifts such as this have been described as social tipping points where changes in attitudes and behaviour trigger a much bigger and more widespread change.
Dr Rudd said climate action wasn’t just about engineers and chemists and the like. “You need more people going into politics, into advocacy work,” she said.
Asked what three things people who wanted to take action should consider, she recommended ethical banking, making sure you vote and trying to buy local seasonal produce.
Most people don’t want to feel bad about choices they make. “We just need to make it easier for people to make the ecological decision,” said Dr Rudd. “Then it becomes less polarising. It’s not a fight anymore.”
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