Our only home is getting hotter every day, and this is causing many of us suppressed anxiety. We shove thoughts aside of our skins blistering in the heat, and our lungs gasping for cool air. We hope our Earth is going through a natural cycle and things will return to normal soon. However, climate change and declining mental well-being are more immediate problems.
Is Climate Change and Declining Mental Wellness an Emergency?
The Australian Medical Association believes we are in a crisis. The World Health Organization takes it further. It says “climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st Century” and then draws mental health out into the open.
Climate change and declining mental health are powerfully linked according to The Conversation. Some people are extremely distressed and desperate after harsh weather forced them from their homes. We have compelling evidence people who are not directly affected by climate are also feeling strain. The best way to deal with anxiety is to accept the root cause, and try to do something positive.
We Should Therefore Allow Our Youth More Slack When They Protest
We are bewildered when young people are arrested / roughed up by police while they protest during climate strikes. Our youth are our past and present rolled into one, and they will lead us into the future.
We must listen to them when they say, “We are striking from school to tell our politicians to take our futures seriously. And treat climate change for what it is – a crisis.” That’s because they will have to face the consequences of our present inaction in their future.
We hope they succeed in dragging climate change and declining mental health into the corridors of power. Then they will have done a very great thing for all of us in deed.
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