Think about your future and how you feel about climate change.
Does the stress of it feel like a giant pot of pasta, ready to boil over?
It might seem im-pasta-ble, but we asked 100 kids in the greater Vancouver area, British Columbia, to think of that same scenario in a game we called Hope or Nope.
We asked: When it comes to your future and climate change, do you have hope, nope or are you unsure?
Click play on the video to watch as kids answer that question on climate change.
There, you’ll hear from kids on how they feel.
You can also hear a climate expert’s answers to their pressing questions.
What these kids say and do might just stick with you, like a handful of spaghetti on a giant, inflatable globe.
Pasta time! Different colour-coded spaghetti noodles stick to an inflatable Earth representing kids’ thoughts on the future of the planet. (Image credit: CBC Kids News)
How do 100 kids feel about climate change and their futures?
In a townhall meets game show called Hope or Nope, CBC Kids News asked kids and teens to take a stand — literally — on how they feel about their futures.
By standing in giant circles representing hope, nope or unsure on a film studio floor, 100 kids from the greater Vancouver area shared their perspective.
Do they have hope? Are they unsure? Or maybe they firmly say “nope.”
Some teens like Midu Nguyen, 14, told the studio audience they are hopeful.
“If all of us are … hopeful, then we can definitely make an impact,” she said.
Get ready to grab a chunk of pasta and throw! Before their final vote, the kid and teen participants of Hope or Nope got to talk to each other and an expert about their points of view. (Image credit: CBC Kids News)
Other teens, like Sophie Kucherenko, 16, remained unsure
“I believe that we can solve climate change, but the problem is what we are focusing on,” Sophie told CBC Kids News contributor Matthew Hines.
Rather than focusing on individual action, Sophie wants the focus of climate change to be on big corporations that are responsible for pollution around the world.
CBC Kids News contributor Matthew Hines, left, interviews Sage-Taylor Forward, right, about how she feels about climate change and whether she has hope or nope. (Image credit: CBC Kids News)
Sage-Taylor Forward, 16, stood in the nope section.
She questioned who is responsible for the biggest impacts of climate change.
“I feel like the real people who have the power to change things [when it comes to the climate] are the people whose pockets are deep with the money that they get from polluting and destroying the Earth,” she said.
What colour pasta would you have thrown for your climate change vote? Green for hope? Yellow for unsure? Or red for nope? (Image credit: CBC Kids News)
In the climate change chapter of the show, the final vote was decided by throwing colour-coded pasta at a giant globe.
Green pasta represented hope, yellow pasta represented unsure and red pasta represented nope.
What about you? How are you feeling about climate change?
Now it’s your turn to share your vote!
Take a chance to get more context before you vote.
You can hear from a Canadian kid or teen on how they feel about climate change.
Or listen to a climate scientist and expert, Simon Donner, on where he finds hope for the climate.
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