More than 70 percent of children aged 7-12 are now afraid of climate change, according to the results of a survey.
More than seven in ten children aged 7-12 are now worried about climate change, research conducted by a UK-based start-up has reportedly found.
It comes amid reports from various experts that children and teenagers of various demographics are experiencing high rates of mental health difficulties, with one school counselor earlier this year saying that anxiety rates have hit an all-time high post-lockdown. [emphasis, links added]
According to a report by Euronews, the survey — which polled 1,000 children born between 2010 and 2015 on their views regarding the environment — found that a total of 71 percent of respondents were now worried about environmental changes, including the changing climate.
27 percent of respondents in particular said that the impact changing global temperatures were having on animals is their greatest concern, while just under one in five were most concerned about plastic pollution.
The survey is one of the latest examples of so-called eco-anxiety — extreme worry in relation to the changing climate or dangers to the environment — affecting children at a time when educational systems are focusing more and more on ongoing issues to do with emissions and potential catastrophic rise of sea levels.
For those on the political left, in particular, eco-anxiety appears to be a growing variable, with the European Union even running courses for its workers in the hopes of helping them to deal with the stress brought about by their climate beliefs.
A study published earlier this year found that a significant number of children now also appear to be experiencing “a variety of emotions such as anger, sadness, guilt, and hopelessness that characterize eco-anxiety”, though noted that more research into the phenomenon’s impact on children in particular needed to be done.
Such anxiety comes at a time when many young people are already experiencing major mental health difficulties for a wide variety of reasons, with some experts even suspecting that the on-and-off worldwide COVID lockdowns have had a seriously detrimental effect on the well-being of children.
“Kids have the highest level of anxiety I’ve ever seen: anxiety about basic safety and fear of what could happen,” one Colorado school counselor told a New York Times investigation earlier this year.
Others remarked that their students had ended up “frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started,” seemingly as a result of lockdown-related isolation.
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Shame on science ignorant grade school teachers and the mainstream media. How many of these fear-indoctrinated children know that without CO2 all life dies? That more CO2 has made life greener, stronger, more drought tolerant, and abundant? That more CO2 has helped make us better able to feed eight billion people than we could feed 3.5 billion a century ago? That life on earth is entirely dependent on CO2? And that CO2 levels are dangerously low? That any level of CO2 below 2,000ppm is a starvation level LOW OF CO2? That the 2nd most abundant element contained in life is carbon and that comes entirely from CO2? That life on earth is made entirely of little carbon sacks of water we call cells? That life on earth is carbon-based? That CO2 is insignificant in our constantly, naturally changing climate except that it rises and falls because CO2 solubility is temperature dependent? That 300 times more people die from a lack of energy than from the climate? We are raising generations of children indoctrinated in a CO2 driven climate cult. The overwhelming evidence is that we remain well within the normal, natural 12°C range of temperature. That cold kills 85 times the number of people that heat does. And that climate kills ten times fewer people today than it did a century ago. What climate crisis? We have a crisis of science ignorance of the facts.
All correct Barry. Sea levels, apparently the greatest fear. What’s going to happen to the Maldives in the next Milankovitch Ice Age. A little pimple of land with 120 m cliffs. Mea Culpa – everything is going to be supplied by ELECTRIC AIRPLANES.
Just tell the kids that climate change is just another
” boogey man ” and that once Hallowe’en is over, you
don’t have to worry about the jerk.
Same goes for smellocrats.