Stevenson, Robert B., and Whitehouse, Hilary (2023) Learning for Climate Action. In: Wallenhurst, Nathanaël, and Wulf, Christoph, (eds.) Handbook of the Anthropocene: humans between heritage and future. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1439-1443.

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Abstract

In 2021 the Federal Court of Australia handed down a judgment, in response to a class action brought against the Australian Environment Minister, by a group of young people, acting on behalf of their peers, that the Minister owes a duty of care to young people not to cause them harm from climate change. This court concluded that quality of life, including opportunities to grow and prosper and enjoy good health and nature’s treasures, “will be greatly diminished,” while

Lives will be cut short. Trauma will be far more common

None of this will be the fault of nature itself. It will largely be inflicted by the inaction of this generation of adults, in what might fairly be described as the greatest inter-generational injustice ever inflicted by one generation of humans upon the next.

To say that the children are vulnerable is to understate their predicament.

Item ID:	86518
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-3-031-25910-4
Copyright Information:	© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2025 23:23
FoR Codes:	39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390105 Environmental education curriculum and pedagogy @ 100%
SEO Codes:	16 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 1603 Teaching and curriculum > 160302 Pedagogy @ 100%
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