'It's really hard to grow up on a planet full of ifs,' says activist jstengle_Margolin. Anxiety about climate change challenges today's youth, and psychologists say it's good for them to talk about it - and for adults to listen.
A group of young protestors chant slogans and carry signs during a global climate rally at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, part of a wave of protests around the world. Many young climate activists say they feel hopeless and overwhelmed _ and psychologists say that’s OK and it’s good they’re talking about it. It’s sometimes called climate change anxiety and you don’t have to be an activist or young to feel it.
“Coming to terms with the fact that we have lived on a dying planet is terrifying,” said 18-year-old activist Kaylah Brathwaite, a Charlotte, North Carolina college student. “I’ll give speeches and I’ll cry.... I’m just going to have to be scared for the rest of my life.” “Young people from different parts of the world are living in constant fear and climate anxiety, fearing their future,” Komal Kumar, a youth climate activist from Fiji, told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at Saturday’s youth climate summit.
For young people, climate anxiety “is a very tough thing for them to take. How grownups react is critical to them,” Weintrobe said.
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