How we created a climate change museum to inspire hope among eco-distressed students

In 2023, a visit to a local public high school to discuss our project, the Museum of Climate Hope, led to an unexpected discussion. A few weeks earlier, a leading climate scientist had presented a harrowing story about the climate apocalypse to the school’s sixth-form students. But students told us that the scientist’s presentation, intended as a wake-up call to apathetic teenagers, backfired.