One in five children is having nightmares about climate change, according to a British survey on Tuesday, as students globally stage protests over a lack of action to curb global warming.
About 17 percent of children in Britain said worries about climate change were disturbing their sleep while 19 percent said these fears were giving them nightmares.
The survey of 2,000 children aged eight to 16, conducted by pollster Savanta-ComRes for BBC Newsround, also found that two in five, or 41 percent, did not trust adults to tackle the climate crisis.
Over the past year, millions of young people have flooded the streets of cities around the world demanding political leaders take urgent steps to stop climate change, inspired by 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
Emma Citron, a consultant clinical child psychologist based in London, said young people were clearly fearful about climate change with the survey finding 58 percent were worried about the impact that climate change will have on their lives.
“Public figures like David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg have helped young people to voice their worries and we have to make sure that we as adults listen to them and … help them become involved in positive change,” she said in a statement.
“We all need to support them not to feel hopeless but rather to present to them hopeful and balanced messages about their futures and ensure that they get the right professional help if their anxiety is unduly high.”
The American Psychological Association has said it was aware of reports of growing “eco-anxiety” in children, but research was needed to establish how common it was.
Britain’s Oxford Dictionaries recorded a 4,290 percent increase in the term “eco-anxiety” in 2019, particularly among young people.
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Stop scaring the kid with this false idea of Global Warming/Climate Change parents take your kids out of this dangerous pagan new age cult
My mother is an octogenarian, laying in a retirement home. A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness, she became disillusioned. Why? The “brothers” came to see her, asked her to leave her estate to them. There is no ‘New World’. No heaven. The meek shall not inherit the Earth. It was a scam.
Hell is here on Earth, living in fear for no good reason.
On the (maybe) bright side, in a decade or so (hopefully sooner), these kids traumatized by the fake scam will realize how they were lied to, and be more resilient to the next global calamity scam.
Watch the kids’ suicide rate soar in the next few years. Youngsters interviewed in Australia came up with the idea that they have no future and that the world will end within fifteen years because of global warming. Even if you do believe the fantasy of CO2 driven heat–the geological record shows that historically it is the reverse–stop the doomsday nonsense that the kids pick up on. Professor Thunberg should be banned from any more media statements.
Back in the 1960’s when it was in Elementry School we had far more important things then fake crisis like Global warming/Climate Change we did the Flag Salute and recited the Pledge of Alligence none of us sat awake all night worrying about something thats only happening on faked computer graffs and there were no home computers back then but today we need them home computers