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Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.

by 650 5y ago

yepthatsreality 5y ago
The change in climate is what drives the propagation from outlets like NPR.
w-j-w 5y ago
This is a good thing. Climate anxiety is the emotional response that might actually get people to act on the climate issue. Why are you framing this like a problem?
ksd482 5y ago
Or young people can just think for themselves regardless of media outlets? What's your point?
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Do they or have they been conditiom by a school system to listen to a teacher. Does npr fill that role?
giantg2 5y ago
Eh, they're failing on more issues than just climate change. I think many people realize the rampant hypocrisy and political games that both sides play. It seems the ruling class grant themselves more and more power and privilege while imposing ever increasing restrictions on the population at large.
- tibbetts 5y ago
  Only some people fall into the “both sides” trap and start thinking that cynicism is a virtue. It’s unfortunate, as this behavior encourages the very outcome to which you object. It’s much easier to take advantage of people who have given up.
  - yesOfCourse9 5y ago
    There are issues with both sides when the context is the environment. I don’t doubt we need technological logistics but after ensuring biological stability for the species, speculative economic activity is an environmental time bomb. There are plenty of drill baby drill Democrats, especially as the other side has gone off the deep end. Can the environment survive a Tesla in every garage? It’s still pushing the problem off until we die. We not afford arbitrarily drawn political boundaries on how far.
  - giantg2 5y ago
    It's not that the people have given up. There are small changes that seem to be happening, like rank choice voting, and calls for many other things, like trading restrictions on members of Congress. But really, it's easy to take advantage of people when the People have increasingly less power.
DangitBobby 5y ago
The plugging your ears approach really is preferable, all things considered.
vincentpants 5y ago
NPR isn’t the source of our anxiety, it’s people that don’t listen or take this seriously that do, like you actually. If you’re not actively trying to fix this, then you are part of the problem.
- masijo 5y ago
  How are you trying to fix it? Serious question, no bad intentions meant.
  - vincentpants 5y ago
    Co-founded our local Hackspace, the first Mini Makerfaire, pushed for many municipal computer parsable open data initiatives. Lobbied for additional bike lanes and bike parking in our downtown corridor. Optimizing resource management for North American manufacturing (pending & hopeful). Giving talks about how there will be no techno salvation as long as we live under the Leibensweise formed by a civilization driven by resource extraction (capitalism). Sending supplies to protestors at Fairy Creek, and above all am currently making bread and eating it. And it’s so far from enough. What are you doing?
ClumsyPilot 5y ago
What propagates anxiety in young people is that they can't vote untill they are 18, their voting block is tiny and no-one represents their concerns in the system. Meanwhile folks in charge are dense as lead and vote for one party their whole life, but deride 'millennials'.
- throwawaysea 5y ago
  The voting age should probably be raised, not lowered. The fact that those polled here cannot function normally day to day in large numbers due to climate anxiety (per this article) suggests those in this age group are far too immature emotionally and mentally to make good choices. Obviously I am speculating, but I bet many of those polled would answer differently ten years from now, or if they were working, or had a family. That experience is necessary to find balance and completeness in their worldviews.
  - ClumsyPilot 5y ago
    I am sick of younger generations being derided and given no credit. It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war. It was the young people that were drafted into the army to die half a world away. Can you point to a single issue where young people were the problem? Older voters are more likely to be partisan, closed minded and (yes, ghasp) sexist or racist. We have older folks that voted for the same party their entire life. If you grow old, senile and longer function mentally, you can still vote. We teach 17 year olds general relativity and differential equations but don't trust them to vote, when they will have to live with the consequences. PS. I am, myself, bordering on the 3rd decade now, but I can see this toxic attitude for what it is. Like classism and other ism's, ageism persists.
    - Aerroon 5y ago
      >It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war. When the Iraq war started, how old were people who were young during the Vietnam war protests? 2003 - 1965 = 38 Young person that protested the Vietnam war + 38 years = old person I don't think that the Vietnam war protesters were in favor of the Iraq war, but it is the same generation that you're talking about. The young of today are the old of tomorrow. They will take their biases and ideas, temper them with experience and then be derided by the young of tomorrow for being too close-minded. We might teach 17 year olds general relativity, but we don't teach them how much work goes into making and maintaining all of the stuff they (we) take for granted in life. They might know that world hunger is a distribution problem, but it's not as easy to accept that and apply it to your thinking.

Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.

by 650 5y ago

Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.

yepthatsreality 5y ago

The change in climate is what drives the propagation from outlets like NPR.

w-j-w 5y ago

This is a good thing. Climate anxiety is the emotional response that might actually get people to act on the climate issue. Why are you framing this like a problem?

ksd482 5y ago

Or young people can just think for themselves regardless of media outlets? What's your point?

ipaddr 5y ago
Do they or have they been conditiom by a school system to listen to a teacher. Does npr fill that role?

giantg2 5y ago

Eh, they're failing on more issues than just climate change. I think many people realize the rampant hypocrisy and political games that both sides play. It seems the ruling class grant themselves more and more power and privilege while imposing ever increasing restrictions on the population at large.

tibbetts 5y ago
Only some people fall into the “both sides” trap and start thinking that cynicism is a virtue. It’s unfortunate, as this behavior encourages the very outcome to which you object. It’s much easier to take advantage of people who have given up.
- yesOfCourse9 5y ago
  There are issues with both sides when the context is the environment. I don’t doubt we need technological logistics but after ensuring biological stability for the species, speculative economic activity is an environmental time bomb. There are plenty of drill baby drill Democrats, especially as the other side has gone off the deep end. Can the environment survive a Tesla in every garage? It’s still pushing the problem off until we die. We not afford arbitrarily drawn political boundaries on how far.
- giantg2 5y ago
  It's not that the people have given up. There are small changes that seem to be happening, like rank choice voting, and calls for many other things, like trading restrictions on members of Congress. But really, it's easy to take advantage of people when the People have increasingly less power.

DangitBobby 5y ago

The plugging your ears approach really is preferable, all things considered.

vincentpants 5y ago

NPR isn’t the source of our anxiety, it’s people that don’t listen or take this seriously that do, like you actually. If you’re not actively trying to fix this, then you are part of the problem.

masijo 5y ago
How are you trying to fix it? Serious question, no bad intentions meant.
- vincentpants 5y ago
  Co-founded our local Hackspace, the first Mini Makerfaire, pushed for many municipal computer parsable open data initiatives. Lobbied for additional bike lanes and bike parking in our downtown corridor. Optimizing resource management for North American manufacturing (pending & hopeful). Giving talks about how there will be no techno salvation as long as we live under the Leibensweise formed by a civilization driven by resource extraction (capitalism). Sending supplies to protestors at Fairy Creek, and above all am currently making bread and eating it. And it’s so far from enough. What are you doing?

ClumsyPilot 5y ago

What propagates anxiety in young people is that they can't vote untill they are 18, their voting block is tiny and no-one represents their concerns in the system. Meanwhile folks in charge are dense as lead and vote for one party their whole life, but deride 'millennials'.

throwawaysea 5y ago
The voting age should probably be raised, not lowered. The fact that those polled here cannot function normally day to day in large numbers due to climate anxiety (per this article) suggests those in this age group are far too immature emotionally and mentally to make good choices. Obviously I am speculating, but I bet many of those polled would answer differently ten years from now, or if they were working, or had a family. That experience is necessary to find balance and completeness in their worldviews.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  I am sick of younger generations being derided and given no credit. It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war. It was the young people that were drafted into the army to die half a world away. Can you point to a single issue where young people were the problem? Older voters are more likely to be partisan, closed minded and (yes, ghasp) sexist or racist. We have older folks that voted for the same party their entire life. If you grow old, senile and longer function mentally, you can still vote. We teach 17 year olds general relativity and differential equations but don't trust them to vote, when they will have to live with the consequences. PS. I am, myself, bordering on the 3rd decade now, but I can see this toxic attitude for what it is. Like classism and other ism's, ageism persists.
  - Aerroon 5y ago
    >It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war. When the Iraq war started, how old were people who were young during the Vietnam war protests? 2003 - 1965 = 38 Young person that protested the Vietnam war + 38 years = old person I don't think that the Vietnam war protesters were in favor of the Iraq war, but it is the same generation that you're talking about. The young of today are the old of tomorrow. They will take their biases and ideas, temper them with experience and then be derided by the young of tomorrow for being too close-minded. We might teach 17 year olds general relativity, but we don't teach them how much work goes into making and maintaining all of the stuff they (we) take for granted in life. They might know that world hunger is a distribution problem, but it's not as easy to accept that and apply it to your thinking.