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41. Bridget Shirvell on Parenting in a Climate Crisis: Teaching Kids Curiosity, Resilience & Hope
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“Research has found that the amount of questions kids ask dramatically decreases once they start formalized education.” – Bridget Shirvell
Journalist and climate-communicator Bridget Shirvell joins Humanism Now to share a four-part roadmap—feel, love, build, act—for raising climate-resilient kids. Drawing on her new book Parenting in a Climate Crisis, she explains how families can turn eco-anxiety into everyday action, nurture curiosity, and help children transform concern into hope.
Hachette Book Group
Connect with Bridget
- Website – https://breeshirvell.com
- Newsletter – Raising Climate Resilient Kids -Substack
- Instagram– @breeshirvell
- LinkedIn – /in/breeshirvell
Topics we cover
✔︎ Bridget’s feel-love-build-act framework for climate-conscious parenting
✔︎ Turning daily habits—into social tipping points
✔︎ Teaching stewardship through family pets without gender stereotypes
✔︎ Countering the curiosity slump that formal schooling often creates
✔︎ Balancing individual choices with systemic change & local activism
✔︎ Practical ways to ease eco-anxiety while fostering genuine hope
✔︎ Food, waste-reduction and other low-lift actions kids can lead
Resources & further reading
- Parenting in a Climate Crisis – Bridget Shirvell (2025)
- Tipping point for large-scale social change – Science (2018)
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Chapters
1. Intro to Bridget Shirvell & Parenting in Climate Crisis (00:00:00)
2. Finding Climate Balance: Concern and Action (00:02:41)
3. The Four Elements: Feel, Love, Build, Act (00:03:34)
4. Finding Climate Balance: Concern and Action (00:04:45)
5. Fostering Curiosity in the Next Generation (00:06:52)
6. How the Climate Awareness Changes with Age (00:11:33)
7. Necessity of Science Literacy for Environmental Awareness (00:14:45)
8. Reducing Carbon Footprint as a Family (00:16:30)
9. Views on Antinatalism (00:20:46)
10. Power of Individual Action from the Silent Majority (00:22:34)
11. [Ad] Between The States (00:22:34)
12. (Cont.) Views on Antinatalism (00:23:18)
13. Individual Action vs. Systematic Change (00:25:19)
14. Finding Hope and Taking Local Action (00:29:41)
15. Changing Minds on Local Politics (00:31:15)
16. Outro - Contact Humanism Now (00:32:34)
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