Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world- Some “climate anxiety” is the product of telling kids — falsely — that they have no future.
"My 5-year-old daughter is now old enough to read a lot of books and magazines aimed at children, and it’s given me a whole new perspective on the
discourse wars over how we talk about climate change, conservation, and the future of the planet.
- As I’ve written about before, climate change is going to be bad, and it will hold back humanity from thriving as much as we should this century. It will likely cause mass migration and displacement and extinctions of many species.
- What it won’t do, however, is make the Earth unlivable, or even mean that our children live in a world poorer than the one we grew up in..."
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