(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Students have been getting a message of pending climate catastrophe for decades. It does sink into their view of the world, resulting in effects on their mental health: "a chronic fear of environmental doom" also known as "eco-anxiety" (image). Professional therapist organizations (like Climate Psychiatry Alliance) have been growing.
Your children have likely picked up some "transference" of eco-anxiety if their school teachers are on the political left (see yesterday's post). A British study done by the BBC found that "75% of young adults from the ages 16 to 25 reported themselves to have intense worry or fear about the future due to climate change."
Mother of a Berkley student tells of her son, "a climate activist and urban studies graduate student at Berkeley, [who] died by suicide, citing feelings of hopelessness over the changing climate."
Ideas have consequences.
If it's not time to panic--if the environmental scientist is right--then don't scare people to death.
from City Journal
(cont'd tomorrow)
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