Report: Young People Are Suffering ‘Climate Anxiety,’ Majority Think ‘Humanity Is Doomed’

breitbart.com ^ | 9/15/2021 | Katherine Hamilton

[rktman]

A growing number of young people are combating “climate anxiety,” and a majority think “humanity is doomed,” according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health Tuesday.

According to the study, which authors claim is the most comprehensive study in the world analyzing “young people’s fear about the climate crisis,” 45 percent of 16-25-year-olds said, “climate-related anxiety and distress is affecting their daily lives and ability to function normally,” Vice News reported of the study.

Approximately 10,000 young people were surveyed across ten countries, 60 percent of which said national governments are “betraying” the present and future generations by not trying hard enough to save the planet.

Fifty-six percent of people surveyed said they agreed with the statement that “humanity is doomed, “and 75 percent said the future is frightening.

Here is the percentage broken down by country of young people who believe “humanity is doomed.” (Notably, some of the world’s top polluters, like Russia and China, were not included in the list.) :

Australia: 50 percent Brazil: 67 percent France: 48 percent Finland: 43 percent India: 74 percent Nigeria: 42 percent Phillippines: 73 percent Portugal: 62 percent UK: 51 percent US: 46 percent “Our children’s anxiety is a completely rational reaction given the inadequate responses to climate change they are seeing from governments. What more do governments need to hear to take action?”said Caroline Hickman, co-lead author on the study from the University of Bath.

[Does so]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

—Mencken

[Oldeconomybuyer]

… So why not let pre-teens have the vote? …

My 3-year old granddaughter is ready to vote. She’s almost potty trained.

[353FMG]

Humanity is doomed, but it has nothing to do with climate change but with the doomsday trigger living in the WH.

[clearcarbon]

"Here's a homework assignment kids:

In the entire history of the planet, what came first fossil fuels or greenhouse gasses?

[rktman]

That kinda caught my eye as well. But the source.