The Future of Climate Activism Is Intergenerational—and on TikTok

When it comes to changing minds, nothing beats an experience. That’s how Sylvia Earle sees it. The scientist has spent years trying to get people to understand the impacts of climate change, and has found that showing them can be the best way to tell them about the problems the planet is facing. Problem is, you can’t take millions of people to the bottom of the ocean, or, for that matter, make them read a boring climate report. The solution? Actually, it might be TikTok.

At this week’s RE:WIRED Green, Earle talked with Sophia Kianni, a 20-year-old climate activist in her junior year at Stanford University, about the ways climate

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