I would ask my nephew that when he was around that age, he starts at MIT next year at 16. I would explain to him that in one year, Albert Einstein changed the face of the world, and made all our lives better. He used his imagination to do it. He wasn't the best mathematician, in face, there were better ones hot on his heels, but he had the ability to imagine how little things work as well as the entire universe. He then set out to prove it. I think kids respond to encouraging their creativity with stories like Einstein's and how he built his ideas on other's ideas. Exposing them to Julius Sumner Miller, Brian Greene and Richard Feynman is also a lot of fun, because they had lots of fun with science. I enjoy talking to kids about science, and seeing their eyes light up. These videos are pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You could solve a small part of this problem by doing some or all of the following. Remember, a thousand small parts make one large part.

1. cease driving an internal combustion vehicle.

2. shutting off power to your residence.

3. using candles that you yourself make.

4. growing your own food and processing it.

5. becoming a vegan eating the food you grow.

6. avoiding the use of anything that is made with plastic.

7. if anything that you want to buy and consume is ever shipped from one place to another in a container that is moved with the use of internal combustion, you must NOT buy it.

Should be simple. This way you won't be a total fucking hypocrite. Good luck.