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How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change
A comprehensive description of the climate crisis, how to communicate it to the PARENTING / ENVIRONMENT
children in your life, and how you can work together to be part of its solutions.
— AL GORE
Building grit and hope in the face of
the climate emergency
All the tools we need to arm ourselves and our children who are
literally facing the fght for their future.
Linus Roache, Golden Globe-nominated actor, and climate activist
Essential. Read this insightful guide to why and how we can
“talk climate” with kids!
Raff Cavoukian, C.M., O.B.C., singer, author,
Raff Foundation for Child Honouring
WITH CATASTROPHIC global warming already baked into the climate system,
today’s children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we
maintain hope and make a difference in the face of the climate crisis?
Help is at hand. How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools
and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and
galvanize positive action. Coverage includes:
• The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency
• Strategies for talking to kids of different ages, including advice
from engaged parents on the ground
• How to maintain our own hope and that of our children
• Practical actions for families
• Helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable world.
A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this
book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit
of a better world that is still possible.
At once ferce and soothing, responding to many questions parents around
the world seek to answer as their children look them in the eye.
Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action
Network (WECAN) International
Learn how we can speak to our children about climate change in a way
that conveys urgency but maintains agency.
Michael E. Mann, distinguished Professor, Penn State University,
co-author, The Madhouse Effect
HARRIET SHUGARMAN is Executive Director of ClimateMama, professor of Global
Climate Change Policy and World Sustainability, and Chair of The Climate Reality Project,
NYC Metro Chapter. She is a nationally recognized infuencer and trusted messenger
on solutions to the Anthropocene. She blogs and lives in New York, NY.
TURNING ANGST INTO ACTION
www.newsociety.comPraise for How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
In her illuminating new book How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate
Change, Harriet Shugarman provides a comprehensive description
of the climate crisis, how to communicate it to the children in your
life, and how you can work together to be part of its solutions. It’s
work like this book that makes me so incredibly inspired by, and
proud of, our global network of Climate Reality Leaders.
—Al Gore
With all the love and wisdom of a true mother, Harriet takes you
by the hand and fearlessly leads you to face the stark truth about
climate change. Once there she doesn’t let go, but rather uses
that love to encourage us to step forward and become part of the
solution. Harriet’s vast experience, knowledge, and care for our
planet and our humanity, vibrates through every page, giving us all
the tools we need to arm ourselves and our children who are literally
facing the fght for their future.
—Linus Roache, Golden Globe-nominated actor, and climate activist
This book is essential reading. As the global climate emergency
imperils our present and future lives, climate education is vitally
important. Read this insightful guide to why and how we can “talk
climate” with kids!
—Raf Cavoukian, C.M., O.B.C., singer, author ,
Raf Foundation for Child Honouring
Raising kids in a world made uncertain by climate change is a
challenging task. Read Harriet Shugarman’s book, How to Talk to
Your Kids about Climate Change, to learn how we can speak to our
children about climate change in a way that conveys urgency but
maintains agency in the battle to preserve a hospitable future for
us and them.
—Michael E. Mann, distinguished Professor ,
Penn State University ,
co-author The Madhouse Ef, ectHow to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change is a precious and
necessary book delivered at the perfect moment. Harriet Shugarman
skillfully guides us through this most perilous time by helping us to
look squarely at the climate crisis while simultaneously showing us
how to navigate through the fre. Her words are all at once ferce and
soothing, responding to many questions parents around the world
seek to answer as their children look them in the eye.
—Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Dir ector,
Women’s Earth and Climate Action
Network (WECAN) International
This book will sustain you in your commitment to protect, empower,
and support your children to act at this defning moment of our
planetary history. Indeed, taking action, together as a family, is the
antidote to fear and demoralization.
—Lynne Cherry, founder, Young Voices for the Planet,
producer, Young Voices for the Planet flms,
author and Illustrator, The Great Kapok T A Ri re veer R, an Wild,
co-author Ho, w We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate
As a mother Ho, w to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change lifts up
my spirit, at the same time as it reminds me that our children are
demanding the truth about our climate emergency, and that they
are looking to us to help them understand the realities we are facing
and the role they can play. Harriet Shugarman has written a
mustread guide for parents at all stages of climate knowledge. I trust
her to help me fnd new ways to talk to my children, to tell them
the truth, and to empower them to move forward in positive ways.
You should too! After reading this book, when your kids ask you
about the climate crisis and what they can do about it, you will know
what to say.
—Maya van Rossum, Leader, the Delaware Riverkeeper Netw ork,
Founder, the national Green Amendment For The Generations movement,
author The Gr, een AmendmentHarriet is an iconic leader and founding member of the climate and
parenting nexus. Her book expertly navigates the complexities of
climate science, solutions, and the emotions that come with facing
our global climate crisis. Parents and non-parents alike will greatly
beneft from Harriet’s personal journey exploring the hopes, fears,
and realities of the state of our planet.
—Tara DePorte, founder, The Human Impacts Institute
Shugarman reminds us that we can’t know how it will all turn out.
Yet, we can fnd ways of not being alone and ways to navigate this
climate emergency. There are steps parents can take to cope, and
more importantly, cultivate perseverance in their children.
—Lindsay Coulter, David Suzuki’s Queen of Green
From the brutal realities of the mounting threat of climate
disruption comes this extraordinary w — brilliantlork y conceived and
full of the inspiring messages we all need to hear in these fateful
times. How to Talk to your Kids about Climate Change acknowledges
our vulnerabilit— but expertl y redirects us to the connections we
must make with Mother Earth to restore her life-giving bounty.
Sustaining the resolve to do this requires steely commitment to
the job ahead — and t o infusing the efort with purpose, love, and
authenticity. Harriet has brought us a clear-eyed plan to navigate
the journey. Keep this guide at your side— in her hands e ven the
most treacherous shoals can become opportunities.
—Lise Van Susteren, M.D. Board Certifed:
General and Forensic PsychiatryWith fve grandsons, I appreciate Harriet Shugarman’s honest and
sensitive advice to parents and grandparents. Harriet has led the
way outreaching to parents. We must unite to end carbon pollution
while helping our children prepare for the changes already baked
into the climate system. Harriet shows the way.
—Larry J. Schweiger, author, Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics and
Last Chance, former President National Wildlife Federation
As we live our climate emergency, the impacts of the crisis are not
being felt equally. Being a parent is a delicate dance – preparing and
at the same time protecting our children. I speak honestly with my
son about climate change and show him through my actions how
we all have a role to play. In How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate
Change, Harriet shares messages of hope, the importance of telling
the truth, of taking action, of climate justice, and of facing our fears
head on. Read this book.
—Ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain,
Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United NationsHow to Talk to
Your Kids
About Climate Change
TURNING ANGST I NTO ACTION
Harriet ShugarmanCopyright © 2020 by Harriet Shugarman. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Diane McIntosh. Cover image: ©iStock
Printed in Canada. First printing May, 2020.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: How to talk to your kids about climate change : turning angst
into action / Harriet Shugarman.
Names: Shugarman, Harriet, 1961– author.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifers: Canadiana (print) 2020017 | C536 anadiana (X ebook) 20200175378 |
isbn 9780865719361 (softcover) | is 9bn781550927290 (P dF) |
isbn 9781771423250 (ePub)
Subjects: lcsh: Children and the environment. | : Global wlcsh arming. |
lcsh: Climatic changes. | lc: Child rsh earing.
Classifcation: lcc Qc981.8. g56 s58 2020 | ddc 363.738/74—dc23
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