Climate anxiety is on the rise for younger generations. We asked kids how they cope with those feelings, and if they had advice for other kids.
When he was younger, climate change felt like an abstract concept to Gabriel Nagel. Then a wildfire burned near his home.When he was younger, climate change felt like an abstract concept to Gabriel Nagel. Then a wildfire burned near his home.Climate change didn't seem urgent to Gabriel Nagel when he was a kid. In a seventh grade class, he saw the chart showing global carbon emissions rising, but it felt abstract.
"I know other people through not just that fire, but other fires across Colorado who have lost their homes," he says.Nagel started learning more about climate change and began taking action in his daily life, like biking more and eating less meat. But it was joining the sustainability club at his high school in Denver that made the biggest difference.
"It sometimes feels like what I'm doing will never be enough," Nagel says."And part of that is true. Like one person isn't going to be able to change the fate of this planet, of climate change. But I think at the same time, I also do have hope that by working together, we can actually resolve this crisis."As a kid, Rosensweig's deep love of nature grew from being outdoors all the time.
"It feels like your skin is on fire," he says."A lot of people have access to safe places to stay, to air conditioning, to water, stuff like that. When you look at our unhoused populations and different people, they don't have that access a lot of the time here in southern Arizona. So the heat is really, really bad."
Helping out in your community doesn't need to be a big project, psychologists like Hudson say. It can be as simple as planting a pollinator-friendly flower. The key thing is to find meaning in the action and build social connections in the process.
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