About This Lesson
YOUTH v GOV is the story of America’s youth taking on the world’s most powerful government. Armed with a wealth of evidence, twenty-one courageous leaders file a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government, asserting it has willfully acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.
This Discussion Guide for the film includes sections on civics, government responsibility, climate anxiety, intergenerational and intersectional justice, community service learning and more.