Abstract

A research project has brought children from widely differing global contexts into conversation with one another. With a focus on climate change and its injustices, children from a small city and a set of small islands in the UK have got to know children from two South Pacific islands. Through filmed questions and answers, stories, and written letters, they have investigated each other's everyday lives, the impacts of climate change, and their rapidly changing environments. The exchanges across the globe have encouraged empathy to develop and thereby a desire to help combat environmental change. The children have decided they would like to create sets of stories which could become curriculum materials for use in schools, so that all children and young people can envisage a better future together. This chapter presents some of the early stories the children have created in the UK, with a commentary on their meanings, the children's interpretations of the climate crisis, and their imagined activism for change.