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Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey

Children worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found.
  1. Tosin Thompson
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Climate change is causing distress, anger and other negative emotions in children and young people worldwide, a survey of thousands of 16- to 25-year-olds has found. This ‘eco-anxiety’ has a negative impact on respondents’ daily lives, say the researchers who conducted the survey, and is partly caused by the feeling that governments aren’t doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe.

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Nature 597, 605 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02582-8

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  1. Hickman, C. et al. Preprint at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3918955 (2021).

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