ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the legal, fictional and activist initiatives that have framed, and continue to frame, climate change as a tale of the children. In these climate change narratives, the paramount focus is on the climate change legacy bequeathed to youth and future human generations. Both time and timing are critical to child-centred climate lawsuits and, indeed, in all climate litigation. The tale of the children in an age of climate change is also being told in varied and nuanced ways in climate fiction. A number of placards in the United States March for Our Lives rallies on 24 March 2018 drew attention to the influence of strong teenage role models in popular children’s and young adult fiction on youth activists. Posthuman children are generally the product of scientific experimentation. The tale of the children in an age of climate change is being told in many diverse ways, in multiple forums and across multiple disciplines.
