Coping with climate change: Advice for kids — from kids
Climate anxiety is on the rise in younger generations, as they face inheriting a hotter planet. Here's their advice on how to cope with those feelings.
Climate change didn't seem urgent to Gabriel Nagel when he was a kid. In a seventh grade class, he saw the chart showing global carbon emissions rising, but it felt abstract.
Then in 2017, a wildfire burned within a few blocks of his house in Boulder, Colorado.
"That was a moment when it kind of clicked for me that climate change isn't something of the future," Nagel says. "It's something that we're dealing with right now, and no matter who you are, you're going to be impacted."
Kids across the world are increasingly facing the impacts of climate change, from losing homes in disasters to having recess canceled due to extreme heat waves. Climate anxiety is on the rise, as a younger generation confronts inheriting
