Eco-Anxiety

Abstract

People of all ages are increasingly worried about our planet. The burden, though, rests on the young, and they are feeling it. Caroline Hickman and colleagues at the University of Bath polled 10,000 youths aged 16 to 25 years from 10 countries. In their project (the report of which is available but not yet peer reviewed), they discovered that 75% of youths polled feel the "future is frightening," 56% sense that "humanity is doomed," and 39% are "hesitant to have children" because of global warming.².