Teenager and Climate Change Communication

This research was aimed at providing evidence on climate change and health knowledge among adolescents. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Yogyakarta city from June to September 2016. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data among 508 adolescents who were in the second grade of a senior high school. This study revealed that participants had a low and inconsistent understanding regarding climate change and its impact on health. They reported that they prefer to get climate change information via talking with family. In summary, adolescent knowledge regarding climate change and health needs to improve with proper content and appropriate media.

Climate change is becoming a major issue around the globe with increasing impact on human health. Strategies aiming to address these climate change impacts are thus a necessity. Involving teenagers as agents of change is one way to promote necessary changes in attitudes and behaviors, in the community and our future society. This paper explores climate change perceptions among teenagers in order to formulate strategies that include them as agents in climate change adaptation addressing health. We did quick survey in 95 students, which are categorized as teenagers from a senior high school in Gunungkidul, Indonesia randomly enrolled as respondents in this research, but 15 of them dropped out due to the incompleteness of answer. A structured questionnaire was used to measure the teenagers' perceptions about climate change and health. Based on this research respondents have had an intermediate understanding of the impact of climate change on human health. 65% of respondents stated that they felt the impact of climate change this time. However, the level of understanding varies with respect to disease. So that, it is highly recommended to improve the knowledge of teenagers about climate change and its consequences on human health by use mass media (TV, Radio and the internet) as media channels for interventions targeting teenagers.

Horizon Research (HRPUB), 2023

India is facing one of the most pressing environmental issues, such as problems with deforestation, water pollution, climate change, plastic pollution, and so on. It is humanity's essential task and challenge to protect the natural environment. We're dealing with some tough changes in the environment, so we need to do what we can to help reduce our negative impact on the environment. In this context, it is essential that young generations understand and address environmental issues. Individual pro-environmental behaviors can help to create more eco-friendly standards of behavior, which in turn help to reduce environmental damage. On that note, social media has been proven to influence climate change attitudes and views, while also raising an individual's awareness of the need to act pro-environmentally. It is well known that social media is one of the most widely used communication and media channels in the world. With the increasing use of social media, especially among younger generations, and the growing importance of our climate disaster, it's worth exploring how a widely used persuasive communication tool could influence a person's pro-environment behaviors. This paper employs a qualitative study and aims to understand the level of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of young people in favor of environmental behavior and how social media plays a crucial role in positive change in environmental behavior and attitudes. The findings of this paper show that social media is effective in promoting pro-environmental behavior and it also helps to understand the threats of environmental issues, especially climate change.

The study investigated youth awareness of climate change in Nakuru, Kemya. Data was obtained through administering of structured questionnaires to 315 sampled youth and was analysed using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The findings showed 83.3% of the respondents have experienced negative effects of climate change over the years such as drought, famine and extreme heat. Also, 85.6% view climate change as a serious problem. About 83.3% of the respondents are optimistic that climate change can be mitigated and abated. Conclusively youths in Nakuru are aware of climate change and many feel the government is not doing enough to inform people about climate change. Diversification of communication channels of climate change information, especially the use of social media; increasing collaboration between government and environmental organizations; and incorporating arts and entertainment into awareness campaign programmes were recommended.

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology, 2016

Climate change has become one of the major Environmental problems facing the world today and the media has been central in making public the distressing evidence of a wide range of its implications on Agriculture, Ecosystems and health. Climate change knowledge and awareness creation are essential for successful adaptation and mitigation. The present study was conducted in the Birim Central Municipal, Ghana, and 400 Senior High Students were randomly selected from five schools. Both closed and open-ended questionnaire was used to assess students' knowledge on climate and their participation in climate change awareness creation.The results revealed that, despite the flourishing media environment Senior High Students in Birim Central Municipal have low climate change knowledge level. Also, there was no statistically significant difference in the level of climate change knowledge with respect to gender, age and the main source of information about climate change. Again, it was found that Senior High School students' involvement in climate change awareness creation is low, and there is a positive relationship between students knowledge level and awareness creation. Implications of the findings on educational curricula, policies and research have been discussed.

This article explores the relationship between the dimensions of the Earth and the ancient metrological systems, specifically focusing on the Great Pyramid of Giza. The hypothesis suggests that the equatorial circumference of the Earth, measured in miles, inches, and other units, is intricately linked to ancient concepts like the squaring of the circle, a geometric problem with both practical and philosophical implications. By examining the Earth's equatorial circumference and comparing it to significant time periods from Hindu cosmology, such as the yuga, the article reveals striking numerical coincidences between distances on Earth and cosmic cycles. Furthermore, the Great Pyramid’s dimensions, such as the socket sides and the encompassing rectangle, are shown to align closely with solar and lunar cycles when expressed in inches. These measurements suggest a sophisticated system where inches represent days and cosmological events are reflected in architectural structures. This analysis delves into how ancient civilisations employed these units to express the inexpressible, the squaring of the circle, both in metrology and symbolic geometry, to connect the finite, material world with the infinite realm of ideal forms. The article concludes by highlighting the paradox of approximating irrational constants like π in physical constructions while simultaneously striving for the perfection of ideal geometry. This ancient system of measurement, deeply rooted in both practical and symbolic mathematics, reconciles the finite and the infinite, suggesting that the Great Pyramid, the mile, and other ancient units of measure are not just practical tools but also embodiments of a profound philosophical worldview.

This essay offers a sustained critique of Bridgerton as symptomatic of the broader trend toward post-racial or multi-racial historical fantasy. By examining the discrete constructions of sex-gender and race in the TV series, this paper asks what does the consolidation of sex-gender in contradistinction to race reveal about contemporary investments in positioning (white) gender as the foundational, immutable category of violation? The point is not simply to repeat a critique of ahistoricity and the perfidious desire to reparatively re-read imperialism, but rather to argue that Bridgerton reflects the contemporary impetus to avow race through an economy of spectacle that disavows racial terror. That is, just as slavery is bound to appear in Bridgerton, despite all efforts within the text to disavow its ontological structure, so too is this sublated appearance present within our contemporary cultural landscape. And so, we argue that the desire within Bridgerton to disappear what is ontologically overdetermined, the ongoingness of slavery, paradigmatically reflects our contemporary impulse to imagine a temporal disjuncture between slavery’s past and our present. Thus, precisely because Bridgerton effectively elides slavery, the show serves as an opportunity to explore the ways in which the isolation of slavery as past crowds out its contiguous forms of subjection.

A C o m p r e h e ns iv e S t u d e n t D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m M o d e l

STRATA 39, 2021

This article offers a brief preliminary account of the study of the decoration of the 5th-7th century CE enigmatic complex uncovered at Caesarea Maritima during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority. It introduces the decorative programme of eight of the complex's spaces, while pointing to the difficulties and considerations taken in studying their remains and reconstructing their ornamentation. The study shows that (a) the interior and exterior decoration followed a master plan; (b) the decoration within the complex was carefully chosen to provide each of the various parts with the patterns and materials most appropriate for its space and function, and (c) the repertory of motives, materials, and inscriptions, the lack of facilities for private dwelling spaces such as kitchen and sleeping rooms, and the dimensions of the Baths all indicate that the complex was a communal property rather than a private one.