Kids have lots of worries in their lives: social pressures, family issues, gun violence in schools, bullying, and now another. Although it's not new, eco-anxiety is receiving increased attention from health care professionals. Kids are physically more susceptible to environmental contaminants and natural disasters, but they are also suffering from increasing rates of stress and anxiety over the state of the planet, including how the climate crisis is and will continue to affect their lives. They must live with the consequences of today's political inaction for decades.
This article in Inside Climate News highlights one of the leaders in the field of eco-anxiety, Lise van Susteren.
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