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Posted on 06/15/2022 1:00:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more devastating wildfires, heat waves, drought and poor air quality, are fueling “climate anxiety” among young people.
Their findings have been published in a report that highlights youth feelings of distress, anger and frustration about perceived adult and government inaction.
In a briefing on Tuesday hosted by the Oregon Health Authority, three young people spoke about how climate change has affected their mental health.
High school student Mira Saturen expressed the terror she felt when the Almeda Fire swept through the area near her hometown of Ashland in southwestern Oregon in September of 2020. The blaze destroyed more than 2,500 homes.
“It was a terrible and stressful couple of days as details about the fire trickled in,” said the 16-year-old. Her fears were heightened by the fact that her father works for the fire department. “He was out fighting the fire for over 36 hours, which was super scary for me.”
Gov. Kate Brown in March 2020 directed OHA to study the effects of climate change on youth mental health. In its report, the agency says its research was “designed to center the voices of youth, especially tribal youth and youth of color in Oregon.”
The report underlines that marginalized communities are more likely to experience adverse health effects from climate change, and notes that “emerging research is showing similar disproportionate burdens in terms of mental health.”
Te Maia Wiki, another high school student in Ashland, touched on this.
“For me, it’s important to mention that I’m Indigenous,” she said. The 16-year-old’s mother is Yurok, an Indigenous people from Northern California along the Pacific coast and the Klamath River.
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The Youth have their noses stuck in Smartphones most of the day so they have no idea what’s going on in the real world
Good keep them from frett’n about what sexual proclivity they are being groomed for!
<< anger and frustration about perceived adult and government inaction. >>
They should be angry about being indoctrinated and brainwashed, not about climate inaction.
NO!
LEFTARDS CAUSE CLIMATE ANXIETY IN KIDS.
Wrong. Leftist propaganda carried by the Marxist media is causing their anxiety.
Problem is..by the time they figure it out ..half their lives are over..and most of their opportunities have past them by.
A steady rain of propaganda might have an effect on kids.
As their anxiety is irrational, they should be advised to continue to wear their mask and get the “vaccine” boosters which they will soon discover are just as effective against “climate change” as they are against the Fauci Flu.
They go on and on about saving the planet when they’re the ones that need saving
We are raising a nation of TOTAL WIMPS.
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Tough chit.
Suck it up or be prepared for a reckoning if you kids believe you’ll browbeat your fears into those of us who are not delusional.
Good. Hardship will help them grow up faster.
Grade “A” Bullshit
They don’t have anxiety because of climate change, They have anxiety because of abusive teachers, parents and other adults deliberately traumatizing their children, then holding them up as public spectacles and saying “See? See what your CO2 is doing?”
No.
The lying media, the lying politicians and their lying teachers cause ‘climate anxiety’ in youth.
I will be dead within 20 to 25 years.
I hope I take the rest of the world, including these YUTES, with me.
And their dumbass parents don’t help, when they don’t teach their kids the truth, and help them understand that they are the victims of political propaganda, by people who want to enslave them.
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