The point is to give youngsters tools to channel their feelings into something more constructive, like taking action in their own communities.
teenagers think about the future, they have an extra burden: They have to deal with more of it than adults. An adult might look at the United Nations’, which models the long-term effects of failing to contain the rise in global temperatures, and figure they’ll be long gone before the worst of the floods and firestorms hit. Which of course misses the point that climate change is already killing people, and that we need immediate action to keep it from getting worse.
WIRED: It would be great to define climate anxiety and climate grief, two terms we’ve heard a lot about recently. What’s the difference?: The really big difference between climate anxiety and climate grief is that grief is more of a mourning response. It's more about longing and loss—things that have happened now, or in the past, that we're losing. Whereas anxiety is more something that's anticipating the future.
Anxiety is adaptive in humans—it’s a good survival tool if you need to be on the lookout for something like a lion in the bush. But with climate change, it’s dealing with something on a much larger scale.
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