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The environmental burden of generation Z: Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change
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- Title
- Eco-anxiety is overwhelming kids. Where's the line between education and alarmism?
- Published
- Feb 3 2020
- Word count
- 4274 words
My teens (13, 14, 17 and 19) aren't "terrified, anxious and depressed" about climate change. The word is "angry." As far as I can tell, they're pretty well resigned to the reality that older people have left them a bad deal. If their generation puts us all up against the wall and shoots us, as a starting point to lowering the impact of industrial civilization, I should not be at all surprised.
I'm technically in gen-z (juuust barely); Most of my peers in my friend group have a constant passive depression/apathy about everything. We feel trapped in an unfixable system as young Americans. It seems that we've allowed an oligarchy to take hold and I don't really see how you can get out of it without rewriting the Constitution entirely.