On this show, we talk to a lot of experts. People who use big words, people who have written some book or spoken at some conference. And we also talk to local groups, people who are doing activisms, people who are heavily invested in this space, people who already know a lot. But that's not really most of Australia. I think for a lot of people, climate change is this kind of vague, bad future thing that is kind of in the back of their minds.

I really wanted to get the perspective of normal people. People who are as invested in climate change as the experts and the activists, because climate change is gonna affect us all in the future. And whose opinions are just as important because feeling kind of bad, not knowing what to do, is a climate action. And it's probably the most popular climate action that everyone in the world is doing right now.

The whole point of 3CR is that we present viewpoints that are underrepresented in other media, that we talk to people that don't usually have a voice, that we present opinions that other media places won't. Children are one of the groups in societies that have the least power, and their words are taken least seriously.

And maybe that’s true, maybe kids just have bad opinions, but something that really struck me while I was talking to these people was just how their ideas were really similar to adults' ideas - it’s just that adults use bigger words. So I interview some normal children about their ideas about climate change.

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What happens when your workplace burns down and then you don't have a job anymore? What happens when you are in a flood, and then your legs dissolve off, and then you have to go on the disability pension? What happens if you’re already doing it tough, and then the whole world around you starts getting even tougher one degree at a time? What if escalating natural disasters starts costing the government a lot of money and then they don’t increase jobseeker for another 1000 years? What if you’re poor but the only real solution to climate change being offered is the individual consumption of electric cars and solar panels and you just don’t have $50,000 lying around? What happens if you're an unemployed, divorced, depressed middle-aged men and everyone assumes that you and people like you are going to vote for one nation, but actually, you're really cool?

I don't know the answers to these question, but Jennifer from the unemployed workers union does!