Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them
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#2Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
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#3Most smokers are unable to quit. Most fat people are unable to lose weight. I worry that most civilizations are unable to cut carbon emissions.
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#4It's not just young people. I'm 56 and I'm going through a pretty serious personal existential crisis w.r.t. climate change. I think even the people who are worried about it don't realize quite how serious the situation is. I used to feel pretty confident that all of the really bad shit would not happen until after I was dead. I'm not nearly so confident any more. I now think there is a significant chance that I could live to see massive famines and the concomitant collapse of technological civilization. I've been losing quite a bit of sleep over it for a while now.
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#5Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
The change in climate is what drives the propagation from outlets like NPR.
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#6Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
This is a good thing. Climate anxiety is the emotional response that might actually get people to act on the climate issue. Why are you framing this like a problem?
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#7Young people with no faith in their government? Rock and roll. Fuck the system!
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#8Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
Or young people can just think for themselves regardless of media outlets?
What's your point?
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#9Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
Eh, they're failing on more issues than just climate change. I think many people realize the rampant hypocrisy and political games that both sides play. It seems the ruling class grant themselves more and more power and privilege while imposing ever increasing restrictions on the population at large.
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#10Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
The plugging your ears approach really is preferable, all things considered.