NEW YORK — Around climate-change protests, tears linger. Youthful activists cite all-too depressing science and develop angst. They grieve for a future they worry they’ll never have.
Many young climate activists say they feel hopeless and overwhelmed. Psychologists say that’s OK — and say it’s good they’re talking about it.
It’s called climate change anxiety. And you don’t have to be an activist or young to feel it.
Jamie Margolin, a 17-year-old activist from Seattle, talks about growing up on a planet full of ifs, while 18-year-old activist Kaylah Brathwaite says she may have to be scared the rest of her life.
Being young is emotional to begin with. Add to that a world where each scientific report — like one that came out Wednesday — seems gloomier than the one before.
Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press
