Child psychologist says schoolkids are at risk of 'eco-anxiety'

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The devastating rise of 'eco-anxiety': Psychologist says schoolkids are being damaged by the climate change debate

Young people are facing 'eco-anxiety' amid heightened climate change debate. Child psychologist Andrew Greenfield said the anxiety stems from helplessness.

 

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The school needs to teach young children that mankind is already on course of gathering CO2 to convert to energy call Ethanol - that's a way to prevent all this hysteria GlobalClimateStrike globalwarming

thanks for the news flash...

Another rubbish article :D

The propagandists are brainwashing these kids for their scam. Sad.

PaulTheBookGuy Realllllllllllllllllllly?

They're being made to feel fear and anxiety over something that no one has to worry about, you mean.

Lol The left is just the worst.

It's a handful. And it's their own parent's fault.

Blame the parents, not the environment.

Totally not a cult.

🤡

And it’s all down to Greta bless her - don’t know why we don’t all top ourselves now Why wait for the grim reaper?

This could not be worst She is now having the reverse effect. Open socity is a dark place like G. SOROS

Hang on.. climate change is bad, brexit is good How can anyone works for this shower of nasty crap?

SuzanneEvans1 Maybe it is about time these school children are asked what school they attend, in order to identify the teacher(s) responsible for the political and subjective indoctrination.

This kid looks I'll to me

Wouldn’t be anxious at all if the adults actually did something... planets fucked and if u think otherwise your deluded

leftyLoons are a liability. Save your kids from their agenda.

Good

I remember being terrified on the ice age the scientists told us about in 72

SHE'S A BEAUTIFUL AND SMART GIRL. GOD BLESS HER AND HER MOM AND HER DADDY FOR BRINGING SMART KIDS LIKE HER TO THIS WORLD. WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE HER ON EARTH. 🧐😍🧐

14 year old girl in the UK killed herself over it about a week ago. This is what happens when media pushes a doomsday cult as fact.

Anxiety is an appropriate response to climate change. I wish more adults were anxious.

Children including Ms Thunberg need to be quiet and let the adults take care of adult stuff.

I won't be around to watch this younger generation solve the climate change problem. I will be dead by the time they conform to societal norms, live in a box, become wage slaves, and don't do shit about the environment.

Attention seeking thats all it is

What about the damage that the climate change will do to them? Isn't that the main part of the topic? Still I believe the most 'anxious' about this discussion aren't kids but the fossil-fuel powerful transnational companies 😝

a future of anxious teenagers.......hang on

This girl is bad for children.

I think we are anxious abou a lot more things than climate change tbh

Is this surprising? The radical left is all about power and think that doom and gloom is the way forward. We humans need hope

SuzanneEvans1 The left want people to be afraid of something.

Mass brainwashing

That girl doesn't look well...she needs looking after...shame on the lefties that are using her

Anxiety is caused by adults failure to tackle climate change ! If a real plan to stop catastrophic climate change was implimented children would not be anxious !

HarveyMyatt They are being damaged by adults constantly feeding them only one doomsday narrative. The debate itself isn’t responsible for their anxiety. The adults continually feeding one side of it to children not developmentally ready to process it are responsible.

Look at her expression I mean she was trained for hours and hours to do this Drama it was too much.

Demorats are killing the youth minds!

The earth has been much hotter than this, with much more CO2, enabling lush vegetation, and all the ice melted, and its still here 🤔

RogerHelmerMEP It's only 'Eco-anxiety' if the environment is NOT at risk. It is a very sensible attitude if the environment IS at risk.

Hysteria. Madness. And the abused child is allowed to carry on scaring our children.

Is it really a debate if only one side is allowed to be heard?

ezralevant These kids have all become PARANOID after watching Greta’s over theatrical performance at the UN!

ezralevant 'Climate Change' has nothing to do with Environment. Rather, it is a Psych-Op, the aim of which is push an Extreme-Left Lgbtq2+++ Pedo & Bestialty Agenda, as well as an attempt to normalise mental illness.

They are being damaged by the relentless propaganda. We urgently need to overhaul our entire education/ indoctrination system.

Thanks to the Indy and Guardian.

If they spent the same amount of energy looking at ALL the science as they do spend on a teacher’s agenda they wouldn’t have these issues. Teach your children to think, not regurgitate, but actually look at information and think critically. They might actually learn something.

Indoctrination by Snowflakes.

The liberal elite will do anything to get their way abuse of children means nothing to these sub humans,

Talanted girl. Just in a little time she attained from the Western propagandistic hypocrisy machine mimic skill and Hollywood's expression

Children as young as 4 are working in cobalt mines in Congo making 8p a day so we can have electric cars that according to the Dutch emit more carbon than diesel, who is stealing their childhoods and dreams,

Bugger off

objectsmith It is not just this debate. As a whole, young people have been frightened by political rhetoric and truly fear for their future. As a family with grown children, we rarely talk politics. Laissez faire.

Maybe kids are worrying so much because they can see that adults aren’t doing anything about climate change. Maybe if the adults took it seriously and took necessary action the kids wouldn’t feel the need to worry so much...

No Correction! Normal Children with Normal Parents do not learn or know about the Eco System...... Normal Children are playing with friends etc not like that little Puppet Weird thing from Sweden who’s Mum may aswell be sat under that desk with her hand up her arsehole

Straight up CHILD ABUSE irresponsible parents teachers

Perhaps it’s because children are justifiably anxious about the future which previous generations have ruined

Someone needs to be anxious -- we are in a climate crisis which the world needs to do something about.

Greta is school drop out angry girl blaming generations she knows nothing about for everything that is wrong in this world . Wars were fought for world independence, inventions were invented, vaccines were created to save lives.

Um.. they should be

Bunch of loons. Something else for them to get benefits for and never have to get a proper job

It's the goal of Soros and co.

Don’t tell us, tell the teachers. They are the ones responsible by lying to school kids about CC and it’s pending Armageddon.

Show your kids this! It’s all BS, just like the Democratic Party, notice a trend!

Unfortunately we live at a time that school kids have more brain to understand the consequence of capitalism grid than politicians!

Parents should just let them be children the same parents who were protesting will no doubt on Monday put these children in cars on the School run clogging the roads will their are pulluting the air

Nice to know that the Left is bent on turning an entire generation to hysteria based on cherry-picked data.

SuzanneEvans1 Psychologists always did have an ability to state the bleeding obvious.

She looks like that doll in poltergeist

Wait till they start paying taxes, then they will really have something to moan about

SuzanneEvans1 children are right to be concerned about the climate emergency, but the right response is to explain exactly what it is, what is causing it and what they can do about it - empowerment and action, even if small will help

ezralevant Pushed it too hard. When you look at a similar speech back in 1992 by a school girl it was less threatening and more inspiring. Like most things now it is done to the extreme, which turns people off.

The depressing rise of utter bullshit.

School kids are getting brainwashed by Far Left school teachers daily

Did anyone see the part of the interview afterwards that wasn’t shown !! 🤔

Man is still advancing and we need to continue the advance to explore the galaxy .. Why push everyone back to the stone age ?

nickclarkeleave Debate, thats a laugh, when has anyone debated it. The left shuts down any debate, because there is plenty of proof that shows we've been lied too.

Being green makes you mean, it would seem.

Thanks leftists

Cu1pepperTh0mas No they are being damaged by adults

Telling kids that being in a burning house is bad? Being in a burning house is bad? Wanting the flames to be put out is bad? Not sure what the story is here? If you don't have eco-anxiety then you aren't paying attention.

Worrisome proper education need of the hour. Climate change should be a separate subject in schools and should be taught in the simplest manner. It should become a habit for children to care for the environment. Don't like this idea of children leaving schools to protest

*Privileged schoolkids

Just look at the Evil Hatred in her face All a big Act .

tell them the facts

ezralevant What debate is that?

ezralevant Kid looks like she’s on The Exorcist Scarey

Where is the debate?

ezralevant Stop terrorizing the children, no one knows what fate awaits us, an asteroid can destroy us all at any moment, let them have their childhood, let them enjoy life, have fun. Adults should not encourage them to take on the problems of the world.

F'ing 🤡🌎... 🙄

ezralevant Not surprising, especially when this subject receives such prominence in schools.

The hysteria is criminal. Is it true a Manchester child committed suicide due to eco-anxiety last week?

Really kids who have tv in every room and air con in class rooms update technology every tine a new phone appears but fast food ..biggest consumers of power in this century the hypocrisy is breathtaking 😂

Tell the media to stop making them panic by spreading bullshit then

ezralevant This deranged child, who rose to fame overnight due to familial ties to George Soros already has blood on her hands, as warehoused children take their lives under her tutelage. She is a tool of genocide.

bbcnews and skynews together with twisted Woke MSM to blame - can’t tell difference between pollution, clean cheap renewable energy ... & Climate Change caused by the sun. Alternative CC scientists no platformed.

Bullsh*t. Teach the kids what they can do to help. There is something for every age, from the simplest recycling to writing letters to legislators,and different levels of activism.

How dare YOU..LOL

SuzanneEvans1 and CreepyJoeBiden

ezralevant Look at the face, full of hate.

ezralevant They’re being damaged by indoctrination by people who were also indoctrinated.

No doubt about it!!! Influencing impressionable young minds is pathetic.

les_deplorable 1. The schoolkids' parents are to blame. 2. 95% of psychologists have more mental health issues than their patients.

ezralevant Lol.

ezralevant Blame the

Damaged my ass!Kids are living in the real world as well ! Knowledge and awareness is extremely important!Wars damage children!

ZaTingler Um, gee, why should they be anxious with all the unpredictable weather patterns. (And it's because they are first ones to fall victim to the changes! Snow in summer? Huge hurricanes with unpredictable paths? Melting glaciers?) Thanks Industrial Age!

ezralevant No Sh*t, Doomsday cults are never good for children

ezralevant It’s a sham and disgusting that so many grown ups has bought into this GretaThunberg circus.

ezralevant And as a senior I can tell you this 16 year old prophet is making me mentally ill.

ezralevant Anyone who doesn't guide their child(ren)s acceptance of school orthodoxy is an idiot, useful or otherwise. BUT... then we get into the realm where kids don't believe anything they're taught since so much is wrong. Praise the gum'bint?

ezralevant it is a parents problem. Teach them the truth and they do not believe that nonsense.

ezralevant

lolololol eco anxiety ClimateChange HOAX GrettaThunberg

Except it's not the whole planet who's responsible for this, it's attention and power-hungry demagogues.

If we want them anxious about something we should be focusing on stranger danger.

Pseudoscience kills, people!

Screw the experts

Anyone who does not believe the great & mighty human race is destroying its own environment is an ignorant fool. Bad for the kids because not dealing properly with reality about your species responsibility is rank stupidity. Mass hysteria my ass. You will deserve what you get.

It's not a debate. It's hysterical propaganda.

Kids are being damaged by shitty public institutions ✌

Would it be possible to have even one day in Twitter without seeing that demonic, demented face and hearing that hateful voice of this grub?

ConspiracyWATCH

kids had to do duck and covers, watch films about the effects of nuclear weapons, told constantly chinese & russians were ganging up & war was certain soon. government programs based on what they wanted us to believe, reality maybe, but so is your destruction of the planet, so?

Liberalism is a mental disorder!

Those same lefty teachers you blame come from the same fold as the lefty psychologists!!

As a child growing up in the cold war I had no anxiety that life would really end. Duck and cover and those pesky nuclear blasts will roll right over you. Lol it was the left that pushed the death to all story line. IE The Wall.

Or they could be traumatized by watching countries like Haiti, Bahamas, USA, India, Philippines being devastated by tornadoes and flooding etc. What about the kids traumatized by the death of loved ones by extreme weather?

Neoliberals and their '🌊🌊Resist' drones sure do love to gaslight children.

Facts are important......

Look at that expression of anguish on that teenagers face. Something weird going on there.

Yeah climate but ignoring the propaganda of the white far left

Aka hysteria. How about we stop the fear mongering embedded in politically motivated school curriculums? They are getting anxious because we have adults constantly telling them the world is gunna end in 12 years.

I👏 WON-👏 -DER👏 WHY👏 👌👌👌

Simple . Leftists will figure out multiple ways to screw up their children : gender confusion, climate change hysteria, TDS, anti vaccination bs. It’s Darwin Parents at their finest.

Child abuse

the coming starvation will cause a lot more anxiety from mass-failures of crops & fisheries

This is child abuse. These children are being fed lies by an organisation that invented Climate Change to tax companies and to end globalisation...the UN

School kids are being damaged by Climate change.

This *is* no more than child abuse.This whole scam was put in place by elites like Gore, to create a new market in *green energy* to which they were heavily invested.They became instant multi-millionairs. Duplicitous scientists and meterologists used to back their scheme.

According to scientist even the amounts of the greenhouse gases vary, at the moment there haven't been so much in 800,000 years as now...

Goes to show how toxic Liberalism is to society. Now its kids they are damaging due to lies

and it is the media and the establishment's fault. don't educate them, put fear into them

Need to quit teaching them crap like this

The face of a possessed 👹

Wait until someone tells them about solar entropy

aka, manipulation and brain wash!

They are damaged by their parents & teachers talking gloom and doom to minors.

School kids are being ‘damaged’ by a lot of the BS they’re taught in school. I don’t think this is part of it.

It's down to the parents to tell them the truth because the left wing teachers won't.

Daily Mail do your homework on this girl and do your job

That's what happens when your future is in danger and it's literally not your fault

No they’re not, they’re being damaged by some people shrieking doom and gloom. Wanna bet the vast bulk of those kids are children of lestists?

Should we not encourage kids to be in school to make these changes? Without an education, they wont be able to change things. And the tech they use is a huge contributor to climate change. Factories make computers and phones

this hysteria has claimed its first victim. A 14 yo in Manchester UK committed suicide this week over this climate change BS.

Free Greta dolls for everyone to help calm their nerves.

That creepy little child actor...she'll be getting Oscars before long! Great acting!

In the fullness of time we will regard this period of history with as much awe as we regard the 2nd world war. We will wonder how people could have become so insane - how adults abused children openly - and how others who knew better let it happen.

Little Timmy: 'Mom will tell me a bedtime story? 👦 Heedless mom: 'Why sure!'👩 Little Timmy: 'Yay!'👦 Heedless mom: 'Ok, here you go! Today, the planet and life exist, but in 5 years it won't! The end!'👩 Little Timmy: 🙎‍♂️

Cu1pepperTh0mas if that little snarling bastard on the left tries to frighten my kids then the little bastard is fair game.

Fear mongering.

Next, a generation of eco-disabled that need Medicaid-for-all, which of course, won’t pay for psychology or psychiatry services. But it should because LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder !!!

TrevorHoneyman We're producing a generation of chicken lickens

The more the organized factions attack Greta, the more she is validated and even celebrated. This little girl you mock scares you. This should show you how fragile and shaky your world view is.

When Democrat politicians are telling kids they wi die in 12 years.. I don’t know how they think that won’t cause problems with these kids and bring them to live in fear of death DemocratsAreDangerous AOC

Because it has gone from education to indoctrination.

We have witnessed the anxiety caused by Democrats' indoctrination — this is child abuse and endangerments. Hold school board, officials, & institutions accountable for biased indoctrination.

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Cu1pepperTh0mas ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Well suffer anxiety now or worse in the future!!! The people who tell you not to worry are nearly dead and have no family ... usually drink in Wetherspoons

Otherwise known as mass hysteria.

InjuredBryd So? When we were kids we had to watch the developments of the Cuban Missile Crises on TV and wonder when we were going to be blown to bits!

Child abuse

So this is where we are Not where we had wanted to be If half the worlds gone mad The other half just dont care You see You dont wanna fuck with us British to the very last When it feels like the world's gone mad And theres nothing you can do about it No theres nothing you can do

Exactly as planned.

these people are sick in the head.

Some kids at my school are wholesale convinced that we are all going to PHYSICALLY BURN because of climate change. The worst estimates put the number around 6 degrees Fahrenheit (IPCC) Nonetheless students are convinced they will die because some teachers are just as stupid.

it is not a debate..it is brainwashing

The parents, and school teachers of these kids are awful people.

So maybe adults should begin to take action against climate change? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Just a thought.

They’re kinda at risk for eco-being-murdered-while-they-sleep-because-of-climate-change, tbh.

Amazingly the rise of eco anxiety in kids just happens to coincide with the rise of its recognition by pyschologists who'll be only too happy to help your whiny little brats get over it for a mere £200 an hour

It’s called child abuse!

Whereas in Greta's most recent speech (today?) she said she didn't have anything prepared to say so just enjoy the day (or words to that effect).

Think this psychologist should go and see a psychologist.

What say you AOC This crap is on you and all the others . Stop killing our kids. Stop damaging our kids.

Man made global warming is the greatest lie ever told. Very evil.

They scared the crap out of me in the 70's!

Who could've seen this coming? 🤔

😂😂🤣😭

Kids are the Law!

Kids being brainwashed is dangerous

The old movies about children giving moral lessons to selfish adults and blablabla are to become real things.

If parents PARENTED, instead of turning their children into their own personal activists, there would t be a problem

You stole my plastic.

Kids have already started committing suicide over fear of climate change. Greta has blood on her hands.

Moans about her childhood being stolen, what about other kids in less privileged parts of the world and their childhood?

Get them on antianxiety medication or similar. Makes then further dependent on government and easier to manipulate

This is exactly what the alarmists want...hysteria. They feed lies and blind, sheep respond.. ClimateChangeHoax

Just democrats abusing and using kids. Poor kiddos. DemocratsAreCriminals DemocratsAreDangerous

That girl is deranged

kids are not safe around socialists

Is that what happen to AOC

Greta is a perfect example of this.

Way to go, lefties...

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