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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

Climate change: Young people very worried – survey

Author:     Roger Harrabin
Source:     BBC (U.K.)
Publication Date:     14 September 2021
 Link: Climate change: Young people very worried – survey
Stephan:   This survey, which I think is very important, does not surprise me at all, but it gives us factual data. If I were in my 20s today, I would be both angry and scared because I would see my chance of having a family and a life anything like my parents or their friends as increasingly unlikely if not improbable. I consider anyone in a position of authority who is trying to block funding to upgrade our infrastructure in anticipation of what is coming, or who is blocking exiting the carbon power era by continuing to support the carbon energy industry, which is to say a few Democrats and most Republicans, to be a traitor. They have placed some other priority ahead of the wellbeing of the nation and the people they are sworn to serve. This survey also tells me that our politics are about to change in a good way. These young people are not going to sit by passively while elderly old grifters like Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin, or young cretins... well you know their names... destroy their future.
Credit: BBC

A new global survey illustrates the depth of anxiety many young people are feeling about climate change.

Nearly 60% of young people approached said they felt very worried or extremely worried.

More than 45% of those questioned said feelings about the climate affected their daily lives.

Three-quarters of them said they thought the future was frightening. Over half (56%) say they think humanity is doomed.

Two-thirds reported feeling sad, afraid and anxious. Many felt fear, anger, despair, grief and shame – as well as hope.

One 16-year-old said: “It’s different for young people – for us, the destruction of the planet is personal.”

The survey across 10 countries was led by Bath University in collaboration with five universities. It’s funded by the campaign and research group Avaaz. It claims to be the biggest of its kind, with responses from 10,000 people aged between 16 and 25.

Many of those questioned perceive that they have no future, that humanity is doomed, and that governments are failing to respond adequately.

Many feel betrayed, ignored and abandoned by politicians and adults.

The authors say the young are confused by […]

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