Teaching climate change studies mandatory to reduce anxiety for teenagers – Are you interested in that?

Essay by Eric Worrall

According to the World Economic Forum, if we teach young people that the world is coming to an end and adults do nothing, they will feel less anxious about the climate.

Should schools teach climate change studies? These countries think so

August 24, 2022

• A study from a British university revealed that more than half of young people suffer from climate anxiety on a daily basis.
• The UN is calling for climate education to become compulsory in schools by 2025 to better equip children to cope with global warming. Future.
• Only a few countries currently make climate research mandatory in their education systems, although many have signed on to this goal in the Paris Agreement.

The effects of climate change continue to be seen and felt around the world. Severe summer heatwaves, severe flooding and damaging storms are becoming ever more common. The fear is that future generations will have to pick up the pieces if concerted global action is not taken before it is too late.

Many believe that including climate change-related subjects in school curricula will help teenagers better cope with global warming, both practically and psychologically.

Last year, A global study revealed that climate anxiety affects the daily lives of nearly half of young people. Research conducted by the University of Bath is based on a survey of 10,000 young people across 10 countries – 75% of respondents said they believe “the future is scary”.

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American thinker Brookings argued that More environmental awareness in schools will translate into changes in consumer behaviorwith reduced energy consumption and waste. It says this will have a bigger impact on trying to reach net zero by 2050 than investing in renewables like wind turbines and solar power.

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Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/climate-change-schools-education/

The linked “Global Studies” has a slightly different emphasis;

Government inaction on climate change is linked to psychological distress in young people – new study

The largest scientific study of its kind shows that climate anxiety affects the daily lives and activities of nearly half of the children and young adults surveyed globally.

Press Release

Published on Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Last updated on Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Nearly half of global youth surveyed (45%) say climate anxiety and distress is affecting their daily lives and activities – according to results from the largest scientific study. on climate anxiety in children and young adults, according to new research.

The first study, based on surveys of 10,000 children and young people (16-25) across 10 countries, found that 75% of young respondents believe ‘the future is scary’ – jump to 81% youth surveyed in Portugal and 92% in the Philippines. For the first time, it found that climate anxiety and distress were significantly associated with government perception of inaction and the associated feelings of betrayal. 58% of children and young adults surveyed said governments were “betraying me and/or future generations,” while 64% said their governments were not doing enough to avoid climate catastrophe.

Research found Psychological distress is widespread among children and young people globally and warns ‘such high levels of distress, functional impact and feelings of betrayal will negatively affect the mental health of children and young people.’ Experts warn that because the government continues to inaction on climate change psychologically damaging, it has the potential to violate international human rights law.

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Read more: https://www.bath.ac.uk/anosystemments/go Government-inaction-on-climate-change-linked-to-psychological-distress-in-young-people-new-study/

Of course, not all of these brainwashed kids responded by becoming climate warriors. Some of them are unable to cope with the climate apocalypse message and make self-destructive personal choices.

The following is the 2019 testimony from Dr. Alex Wodak, a well-known Australian drug addiction specialist;

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First, the threshold step is to redefine drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than primarily as a law enforcement issue. Second, drug treatment must be extended and improved until it reaches a level comparable to other health services. Third, all penalties for personal drug use and possession must be abolished.

Fourth, the drug market must be regulated as much as possible while acknowledging that part of the drug market is regulated, such as methadone treatment, needle and syringe programs, injection centers medically supervised. Of course, it will never be possible to regulate the entire drug market. We controlled portions of the drug market before. Edible opium was taxed and regulated in Australia until 1906 and in the United States Coca-Cola contained cocaine until 1903.

Fifth, efforts to reduce demand for potent psychoactive drugs in Australia have yielded limited benefit and require a new focus. Unless and until young Australians feel optimistic about their future, demand for drugs will remain strong. Understandably, young people want more certainty about their future prospects, including climateeducation, employment and housing affordability. Change will be slow and incremental, like all social policy reforms.

As Herb Stein, an adviser to President Nixon, put it:
The things that can’t go on forever don’t either.

Drug bans cannot go on forever and will be replaced by liberal familism. Thank you.

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Source: https://www.iceinquiry.nsw.gov.au//assets/scii/transcripts/Decriminalisation-round-table/Decriminalisation-Roundtable-Transcript.pdf (note that the link is now broken, backtrack link hereP3980)

Teaching more about climate anxiety may convince many victims to accept “changes in consumer behavior” later in life, but is quite different from the unscrupulous immorality of trying programming children rather than educating them, there seems to be a lot of collateral damage, unlucky young people who don’t get through brainwashing intact, people whose minds are broken by the environment their “educational” school.

These women who are promoting the brainwashing of children don’t seem to care about the harm they are causing. The green focus seems to be forcing “changing consumer behavior,” regardless of the cost and extent of damage.