Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures

Jones, Verity; Podpadec, Tessa

doi:10.1080/13504622.2023.2181269

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“…13, which encourages urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts [113]. Europeans' creativity and climate change concerns could be important for informing practices that foster the implementation of SDGs, including promoting urban health [29,30], designing green workplaces [26], encouraging responsible entrepreneurship [27] or sustainability education [31][32][33], as creativity could be considered a universal measure for solving sustainable development challenges [5,7,27,94,117,118].…”

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“…This study indirectly targets European societies' potential to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (further-SDGs), as the implementation of many SDGs might depend on Europeans' characteristics and attitudes toward themselves, others, and nature. People's creativity and environmental responsibility are important for designing green workplaces [26], driving responsible entrepreneurship [27], shifting challenges to opportunities [28], ensuring urban health [29,30], or educating young minds [31][32][33]. People's well-being is important for degrowing extractivism [34] and promoting biophilia [35].…”

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Creative and Happy Individuals Concerned about Climate Change: Evidence Based on the 10th Round of the European Social Survey in 22 Countries

Dirzyte,

Valatka

2023

Sustainability

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Previous studies, to some extent, link creativity, well-being, and environmental concerns. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the associations between self-reported creativity, psychological well-being, and climate change concerns. This study was based on data derived from the European Social Survey’s 10th round and applied several items from sections H, B, and C. The findings revealed that creativity was positively linked to climate change concerns and psychological well-being, while psychological well-being was, to some extent, negatively related to climate change concerns. The SEM model demonstrated an acceptable fit, χ2 = 1627.862; Df = 7; CFI = 0.959; TLI = 0.876; NFI = 0.958; RMSEA = 0.078 [0.075–0.082]. Additionally, the findings indicated that more creative and happy individuals were also more concerned about climate change; they were more prone to believe that climate change is caused by human activity, they felt a higher personal responsibility to reduce climate change, and they were significantly more worried about climate change. This implies that as creative and happy individuals have a heightened sense of responsibility for climate change, these individuals may indeed play a key role in promoting climate change awareness and actions, including communication on sustainability, sustainability-related projects, and other activities; thus, tailored campaigns could be developed within the frames of citizen science. The findings also suggest implications for policy development: policymakers could consider the perspectives of creative and happy individuals when crafting climate policies, potentially leading to more effective and widely accepted solutions.

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Creative and Happy Individuals Concerned about Climate Change: Evidence Based on the 10th Round of the European Social Survey in 22 Countries

Dirzyte,

Valatka

2023

Sustainability

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“…Gen Z and younger youth are not just current stakeholders but change agents with stakes in the climate change agenda. They must be listened to and involved in environmental stewardship planning (Jones & Podpadec, 2023).…”

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“…Erhabor and Dona (2016) have shown that environmentally aware and empowered youths are the best advocates of change for the sustainable protection of the environment. Gen Z and generations after will be the most affected by plastic pollution and will have to address the consequences now and in the future (Jones & Podpadec, 2023).…”

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GenZs environmental attitudes and ecology behavior nexus: Urgent education message

LeSage-Clements,

Sobolev,

Patton

2024

INTERDISCIP J ENV SCI ED

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Environmental education in schools is critical to help decrease plastic litter pollution because plastic pollution could be the most significant health problem of the 21st century. Our research examined the environmental behaviors and attitudes of Generation Z (Gen Z) high school and undergraduate students in South Texas, USA. The research was important because we need to understand what young people believe and value if we are going to see any change in environmental behavior. Results supported research on how teachers can influence student environmental attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge with education. Feedback from students revealed significant attitude change and a rich narrative of pollution and watershed ecology knowledge and behavior themes. These themes disclosed that a holistic environmental science curriculum is necessary to connect Earth systems with the plastic litter pollution cycle.

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“…In the contemporary neo-liberal economies, fast fashion has facilitated a culture of mass consumerism, leading to a decline in eco-ethical practices. 44 Based on the Qur'ānic teachings and references from the Ḥadīth, the following Islamic Ecological Values (IEVs) 45 were selected to be included in the discussions with the participants:…”

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Green Academia: Integrating Islamic Teachings in Education for a Sustainable Future

Shahida

2023

JITC

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Environmental discourses in the twenty-first century actively engage with religious discourses, consciously attempting to bring religious texts as the centre of attention to suggest viable solutions for countering the current ecological crisis. Islam, too, offers an insight to assert that nature is a creation of Allah and, therefore, a constant reminder of His Will and Glory. Drawing references from the Qur’ān and the Ḥadīth, this paper aims first to establish that Islamic value systems are pro-eco-conservative in principle—I draw from Islamic philosophy, namely, the Unity of Being (Tawhīd), Trusteeship (Khalifa) and Accountability (Akhirah), mentioned in Al-Qur’ān to form the theoretical framework for my study. Secondly, a qualitative analysis of the primary data collected using the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. Primary data was collected from unstructured group interviews and observation of the researcher with a sample size of fifty students from Madrasah Education (Kolkata, India) and fifty students of English medium schools in Kolkata, respectively, to assess the participants' attitudes and practices, and how it aligns with the eco-conservative practices by posing open-ended questions. The study aims to ascertain if education systems with a religious background could contribute to developing eco-conservative practices and awareness. The study suggested that considering religious teachings in environmental education can naturally foster eco-ethical practices. This study comprises a particular region, and since it included a small sample size, generalization of the result is not possible.

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Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Creative and Happy Individuals Concerned about Climate Change: Evidence Based on the 10th Round of the European Social Survey in 22 Countries

Creative and Happy Individuals Concerned about Climate Change: Evidence Based on the 10th Round of the European Social Survey in 22 Countries

GenZs environmental attitudes and ecology behavior nexus: Urgent education message

Green Academia: Integrating Islamic Teachings in Education for a Sustainable Future

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