EPISODE 76: Smells Like Teen Climate Anxiety
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It's another episode for you, this one about teenagers and climate change. Sarah went out and talked to a group of Brooklyn high school students who are organizing to create a network of bicycle highways. Needless to say, they had a lot of thoughts about their future.
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EPISODE 76: Smells Like Teen Climate Anxiety
Young people want to live. It seems kind of basic, right? Anyone over the age of 35 or so probably grew up thinking that the desire to live was something to take for granted, at least on a societal scale. But many members of Gen Z worry that the places they live today will soon be uninhabitable. That they won’t be able to realize their dreams or raise their children the way previous generations did. That their very survival is at stake. And they don’t see meaningful action from the adults in charge. In this episode, we hear from some teens in Brooklyn who are demanding radical improvements in bike infrastructure to make emission-free transportation safe and accessible to all. We also talk with Dr. Elizabeth Marks, a clinical psychologist who has co-authored a new study about climate anxiety in ten thousand young people all over the world. Sixty percent said that they are either “very worried” or “extremely worried” about climate change. There’s a crisis in intergenerational trust. How can we begin to repair the damage?
SHOW NOTES:
Read the preprint of Dr. Elizabeth Marks’s study of climate anxiety among young people.
Watch Joe Manchin get confronted by young climate activists.
Learn about The Tube, a radical proposal for a safe bike network in New York City.
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