The Yutes Are Feeling Hopeless About Climate Doom

Do you think the CBC will come to the best solution? The reality solution? Or, something else?

Many kids feel hopeless about climate change. Here’s what helps

Despite being concerned about the high use of fossil fuels and non-renewable resources, 14-year-old Midu Nguyen remains hopeful that the world will take action on climate change.

To her, it’s all about perspective. She takes the same approach to it as she does to tests at school.

“If you have a test and you don’t want to study for it because you think you’re already going to fail it, then you will fail,” she said in an interview with CBC News.

“If you change that mindset and think, I will be able to change this, then I think you can really do that.”

But Nguyen is not a typical kid.

A 2023 study published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that at least 56 per cent of Canadian youth respondents feel afraid, sad, anxious and powerless when it comes to climate change. And 78 per cent reported that climate change impacts their overall mental health.

Those numbers are pretty concerning, are they not? They are a direct result of the news, scientists, politicians, teachers, etc, scaring the ever-lovin’ crap out of the kiddies, telling them the world is going to end because of a slight increase in the global temperature over 170 years, but, SOON! doom is coming. Is it any wonder they have these negative feeling? If a child is constantly ridiculed by their parents, made to feel afraid, anxious, worthless, etc, how are they going to grow up? Will they have mental health issues?

Maybe it’s high time to stop the scaremongering, to stop destroying the kiddies mental health

One way to shift that mindset is to talk about it.

Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise, a professor at Université Laval and a Canada research chair in art-based and existential interventions in youth mental health, says kids need to be included in conversations about climate, as they will be the ones suffering the most consequences of climate change.

“I think we underestimate their ability to understand, feel and make sense of what’s happening,” she said.

All that does is perpetuate their mental issues. Assholes. The adults who do this should all be taken to remote islands and dropped off with no way off for their child abuse.