Posted on 03/04/2023 4:25:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Kids often worry about much different things than their parents do. One of the big ones is climate change. Research shows most youth are "extremely worried" about it, leading to a phenomenon called climate anxiety. Kids and young adults who struggle with this can perceive they have no future or that humanity is doomed.
"We see that a lot of young people are saying, I think my life will be worse than my parents' lives," said Dr. Sarah Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Suffolk University in Boston.
A study published last year collected attitudes about climate change from 10,000 people across the world, aged 16-25.
In the survey, 59% of youth and young adults said they were very or extremely worried about climate change and more than 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning.
"So, they know that the world is going to get to be a harder, darker, scarier place," said Schwartz. "And imagining themselves in that world feels really scary for them."
The study also revealed how climate change makes young people feel. In all countries surveyed, nearly 62% said they were anxious about climate change. About 67% said they were sad and afraid.
Schwartz said activism may be an effective way for kids to deal with the feelings associated with climate anxiety.
"Higher climate change anxiety is correlated with higher clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety," said Schwartz. "But what we saw was that for young people who have high levels of climate anxiety, if they have high levels of activism, then we didn't see any higher levels of depression symptoms."
Schwartz said the social aspect and peer support of activism is most likely the biggest piece to help protect against depression.
"That may mean signing petitions," said Schwartz.
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The propaganda just doing its job. Around here, I’d say 20% are still wearing masks as well.
Wow! Kids and young adults around here are not but a few old crones will be. The elderly women are the idiots here.
Oh well, may as well smoke Weed and not work
So what these clown “researchers” are saying is that higher levels of climate activism equals lower levels of climate depression.
It’s not enough for these propagandist to brainwash the kids, they are now demanding that the kids participate in climate alarmism.
This is what happens when you give the GloboHomo, Golden Calf worshipers so much power. The mushroom cloud over Washington DC is going to be glorious! /spit
Awww, poor babies! The only thing that should cause them real anxiety is the extent of the indoctrination they’re undergoing.
You hit the nail on the head. There are aware of the climate change propaganda. None of them are aware of climate change. They have no idea of any historical data as a reference. They only know what they are told.
I think my life will be worse than my parents’ lives,”
It will if you listen to people who have never not once not ever made so much as one correct prediction with respect to the great calamity they say is coming down upon us. THEY HAVE BEEN ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WRONG.
Putting any credence into anything they say may make you a moron.
Snowflake Nation
Research shows .. whatever the current grant money tells it to 'show'.
Those kids need a grandma like I had as a kid.
She had only piece of advice:
“Never believe anything you see on TV.”
She lived to be 106 with that approach—it keeps you smiling and ignoring the “experts” who want to kill you young to “save the planet”.
“That may mean signing petitions,” said Schwartz.
I hear that causes global warming. (Snicker)
No, fear mongering is accomplishing that.
Mass psychological abuse.
Mess up a kid up when he OR she is young and you mostly screwed them up for the rest of their lives.
We can stop all that BS anxiety by knocking off all the BS LYING to them in our brainwashing and programming institutions. Da yoots are some pretty stupid little humans these days. Take away their cellphones and access to Tik Tok and we’d have an epidemic of mass suicides on our hands. After all, these retards dress up like little animals to go to school. Real retards.
As climate changes, climate anxiety rises in youth...In the survey, 59% of youth and young adults said they were very or extremely worried about climate change and more than 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning.
And as with yelling "Fire" in a theater, anxiety rises relative to cries of alarm. Yet much as a result of spiritual declension and contraception=one or two child households majority along with unprecedented prosperity then Americans have increasingly become less resilient and suicidal.
Fifty years ago suicide among young people aged 15–24 was a relatively infrequent event and suicides in this age group constituted less than 5% of all suicides in the United States. As can be seen in Figure 21.1, between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, the rate of suicide rose markedly among this age group. This increase was observed most dramatically among young males, whose suicide rates more than tripled between 1955 and 1977 (from 6.3 per 100,000 to 21.3). Among females ages 15–24, the suicide rate more than doubled during this same period (from 2.0 per 100,000 to 5.2). By 1980, suicides by 15-to 24-year-olds constituted almost 17% of the approximately 30,000 suicides in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics, n.d.). - https://academic.oup.com/book/38543/chapter/333673952
From 1970 to 1980 the suicide rate for older teen-agers and young adults, both male and female, rose 40 percent, the national Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday.Feb 22, 1987. - https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/22/us/youth-suicide-is-rising.html
October 12, 2022: Teen Suicides Jump 29% Over the Past Decade,
Climate has been changing since Creation. If it were not changing, then, the planet would be in danger.
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