You can add worry about climate change — Will we run out of water? How wild will the weather get? Does this planet have a future? — to the list of things vexing teens and young adults who are already stressed over the cost of college and food and housing and myriad other issues.
Protecting the environment is a concern that spans generations. However, experts have observed that younger people increasingly grapple with a deep sense of doom — fearing that the Earth is on a trajectory of decline, with its beauty fading far too soon, destroying their future as well.
Scroll TikTok or Instagram and it’s easy to find young adults expressing their worries on a spectrum that ranges from “What can I do” to “The world is burning.”…