Lying to your children!-----‘Eco-Anxiety’ About Climate Doom Leads Climate Researchers to Quit and Refuse to Have Children. So It’s Not All Bad

‘Eco-Anxiety’ About Climate Doom Leads Climate Researchers to Quit and Refuse to Have Children. So It’s Not All Bad‘Eco-anxiety’ about the doomed state of humanity in the face of catastrophic global warming is leading climate researchers to quit and decide not to have children. 

BBC News has more.

...The article also spotlights student Kyle Downie, 22, who “was an avid climate activist but had to take a break from campaigning due to his mental health. He is now on anti-depressants.” It continues:

His mental health started to worsen in March last year and while eco-anxiety was not the only cause, he believes it was a factor.

“It wasn’t because of eco-anxiety – but I think the eco-anxiety played a big part in being diagnosed with depression,” he says.

“I think that’s probably the case for a lot of people. Just because that feeling of hopelessness is always there, so it leads to depression.” 

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