Climate Change and Young People’s Mental Health

Or is it the incessant media and governments' hysteria about something invisible but deadly and imminent that is driving vulnerable adolescents and young people bonkers?

“Climate change can have ‘lifelong impacts’ on young people’s mental health, report says” (CNN, 2023.10.11):

Climate change can play a major role in affecting young people’s mental health, according to a new report from the American Psychological Association, written in collaboration with the climate advocacy organization ecoAmerica…

If a parent is stressed by hardship associated with an environmental event, like extreme heat or wildfires, it may influence their children’s mental health, as well.

“If your parent is under stress because of worries or these fears, that can affect a child and their mental health,” Clayton said. “Experiencing trauma at an early age can have lifelong impacts on emotional health and well-being.”

Those mental health consequences begin even before a child is born, the report says. Prenatal exposure to weather disasters, high temperatures, air pollution and maternal anxiety can raise a child’s risk of a variety of behavioral and developmental issues, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, developmental delays, low self-control and psychiatric disorders.

The consequences can affect the development of the nervous system and are often irreversible, Clayton said.

No need to try and sift through this steamy pile of intellectual garbage from the conflicted adversarial "$cientists. But one assertion of the report, about the news outlets driving people mad, is ringing true:

For infants and young children, weather events linked to climate change – and exposure to news reports about them – could lead to anxiety, sleep troubles, PTSD, disrupted cognitive development and major depressive disorder.

Adolescents and young adults, the report says, are particularly anxious about climate change. Compared with their older counterparts, young people are more likely to be alarmed or concerned about the perceived failure of governments or authority figures to act on climate change.

According to the report, climate change-related events and distress about the issue are linked to risks of anxiety, depression, strained social relationships and suicide.

I don’t know about babies being exposed to fake news reports from the “trusted” media. But some adolescents without proper parental guidance are definitely sustaining irreparable mental damage. Greta Thunberg anyone?

At the same time, multiple bioweapon mRNA injections wrapped in LNPs and tainted with plasmid DNA on pregnant women, babies, and adolescents are just fine, aren’t they? Very soothing, in fact?