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School Strike for the Climate: Ecological Attitudes and Activism of High-School Students in Croatia

Ecological activism of Greta Thunberg helped increase awareness of young people around the world on climate change and motivate them to raise their voices on burning social-ecological issues. Young people are an important social group as their pro-environmental education can have direct consequences on their pro-environmental behaviour as adults. Furthermore, they can exert pro-environmental influence on their parents and peers. Finally, as they constitute a large body of future voters and consumers, their potential demand for environmentally friendly products and services could be significant for political and economic decision-makers. As young people represent future generations of adults who will have to deal with direct consequences of present-day ecological (in)action, their increased investment in more effective and efficient solutions to ecological issues is hardly surprising. However, there is a notable lack of scientific literature that focuses on this population and “School Strike for the Climate” movement in particular. The main aim of this paper is to present findings from qualitative empirical research conducted in two parts. The first part consists of “desk” research on global “School Strike 4 Climate” movement and qualitative content analysis of existing media content on the movement in Croatia. The second part consists of the results from deep semi-structured interviews conducted in 2020 with N=9 organizers and participants of “School Strike 4 Climate Croatia” protests in the capital Zagreb. Additionally, we will look at these findings in the light of available quantitative data on attitudes of ecological attitudes and activism of Croatian youth. This systematic approach offers a deeper understanding of environmental literacy as well as motivations and forms of ecological activism among Croatian youth.

ecological activism, School Strike For Climate, Fridays for Future, Croatia, high-school students

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