Do schools need a climate curriculum? Activist Sage Lenier says the climate movement depends on it.

Sage Lenier is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she created and taught her own program in college, entitled Solutions for a Sustainable & Just Future. It's the same name as her nonprofit, which aims to make solutions-oriented environmental education more accessible. "The environmental movement is so small and it needs to be everyone and it can't be unless we have that baseline environmental education," Lenier said in an interview with Full Frame host Mike Walter. The vast majority - 80 percent - of U.S. educators say it's important to teach students about climate change, according to a survey by the EdWeek Research Center survey. But one in four teachers at all grade levels say they don't teach about climate change at all. Their reasons? They don't feel supported by administrators or just don't have the resources. Lenier said her activism was at first rooted in rage. She had "a very humbling transition from burn-it-all-down to envisioning something more sustainable and more equitable. And that realization was like the pivot for me to move into education.... You can't just hate the system. You have to want something better." #features #fullframecgtn #climatechange #climateeducation Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile https://cgtnamerica.vhx.tv/videos/hd-live-broadcasts Subscribe to CGTN America on YouTube Follow CGTN America: Twitter: @cgtnamerica Facebook: @cgtnamerica Instagram: @cgtnamerica TikTok: @newstoks This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.