a message from Al Gore: 

Listening to Al Gore speak of the dangers of climate change, one can become emotionally paralyzed. For the nation's youth, it can be a crippling sense of helplessness and hopelessness!   
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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born ​March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and as a United States senator from 1985 to 1993. Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007),

psychological impacts of a climate emergency: 

The majority of US youth . . . feel concern, interest, disappointment, frustration, sadness, anxiousness, and anger as affective responses to the climate crisis, and a majority report that their climate awareness may influence their plans for education, travel, and family planning.

                        - PNAS: Psychological impacts of climate change on US youth
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a message from Save the Children:

Right now, in the U.S. and around the world, children's lives are under threat due to climate change. Nearly 710 million children are currently living in countries at the highest risk of suffering the impact of the climate crisis. However, every child will inherit a planet with more frequent extreme weather events than ever before.  

​Extreme events, including wildfires, floods and hurricanes, have become a frightening new normal. Hotter temperatures, air pollution and violent storms are leading to immediate, life-threatening dangers for children, including difficulty breathing, malnutrition and higher risk of infectious diseases. 
  • Children’s immune systems are still developing, leaving their rapidly growing bodies more sensitive to disease and pollution.  
  • 90% of diseases resulting from the climate crisis are likely to affect children under the age of five.
  • The education of around 38 million children is disrupted each year by the climate crisis.
  • Almost 160 million children are exposed to increasingly severe and  prolonged droughts.
  • By 2040, it is estimated that one in four children will be living in areas with extreme water shortages.​
  • By 2050, a further 24 million children are projected to be undernourished as a result of the climate crisis.
  • The climate crisis is forcing families to migrate. By 2050, there could be 143 million more migrants due to the climate crisis.
  • The climate crisis magnifies inequality, poverty, displacement and may increase the likelihood of conflict.

Select REPORTS AND PAPERS:

INSTITUTION: American Health Association. Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Inequities, Responses, 2023
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INSTITUTION: American Health Association. Addressing the Climate Crisis: An Action Plan for Psychologists, Report of the APA Task Force on Climate Change. 2022
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INSTITUTION: Imperial CollegeThe Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence, and its Implications, Emma L. Lawrance, et al., 2022
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​INSTITUTION: University of Bath. Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, 2021
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INSTITUTION: The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index. New York: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2021.
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INSTITUTION: Dtsch Arztebl International. Walinski A, Sander J, et. al: The effects of climate change on mental health, 2023
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INSTITUTION: The relationship between climate change
and mental health: a systematic review of the association between eco‑anxiety, psychological distress, and symptoms of major affective disorders; Suzanne M. Cosh, et al., 2024
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INSTITUTION: Yale University. Fine, J., et al;.Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health; Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024.
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