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The environmental burden of generation Z: Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change

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    ffmike
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    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...

    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.

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    1. JamesTeaKirk
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      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....

      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.

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