NEW 3 // THIRD QUARTER // Caterina

Mental health and climate change

Climate change is the most important problem worldwide right now, we all know how bad it affects our planet and ourselves. But, did you know that also climate change can cause to children depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, stress...?  ''They look at the generation ahead of them that could have taken action and didn't''. This can trigger feelings of anger, grief, resentment, fear, frustration and being overwhelmed. So, the youths decided to do something and channel those feelings.
Nowadays there are so many teen manifestations around the world, the movement began with Greta Thunberg a teen in Sweden.




Link of reference: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/climate-change-poses-mental-health-risks-children-and-teens

Date: 02/05/2019

Glossary:
overwhelm: affected so strongly for something

Commentary:
I already knew about these problems in the youngest society, after all, we're who suffer more from this problem, is our future that is being stolen and that makes me and the other teens really depressed. Why are we studying so hard if we won't have anything in the future?
And I read earlier about Greta Thunberg, and the movement that she created is now being done in Spain, in Barcelona for example, all the fridays a demonstration takes place and is knew by the name: Fridays for future.