Young people are bombarded with a huge number of issues – from cost-of-living to the challenge of finding employment, an ever-changing global political landscape to inclusion. Where does sustainability fit into the mix?
Darren Axe, Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS)’s International Membership and Engagement Manager, has an ironic name given he has planted many trees during his career – and surely no-one has ever mentioned it!
We discuss the work of SOS in the UK and across their international team in galvanising students and allowing them to realise how sustainability cuts across the challenges they face.
Darren talks us through the main environmental issues concerning young people around the world, how to get students active and involved – and how they engage with university management and try to hold them to account.
Jan gets very excited about trees – but depressed about the world we are leaving the next generation – and Paul wonders whether the trees he helped plant will one day end up as hand-carved spoons in Jan’s kitchen.
Discover more about Students Organising for Sustainability International here: https://www.sos.earth/