A Personal Perspective: Zoomers' apocalyptic anxieties. My wife was talking to my 21-year-old daughter the other day and asked, ‘Are you OK? You and your friends seem a bit lost.’ My daughter replied, ‘We’re not lost. We’re just really angry.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because the World’s going to end,’ my daughter said, ‘because what’s the point of... Continue Reading →
A 15-Million-Year-Old Sedimentary Deposit in an Ancient Idaho Lakebed May Help Us Prepare for the Next 20–30 Years In the past 100 years, “we’ve experienced more drastic climate change than any other human has ever experienced. There’s no analogy in human society,” says Hong Yang, the 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow. Since we... Continue Reading →
Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change
Professors, students offer perspective on generational climate change response From the Newsstands: This story appeared in The Eagle's April 2022 print edition. You can find the digital version here. After decades of inaction by governments across the globe and countless warnings by climate scientists, people of all ages are feeling discouraged, overwhelmed and hopeless about... Continue Reading →
When the future looks grim: Young people experience ‘eco-anxiety’ about impending climate crisis
UN Climate Change News, 20 April 2021 – Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April, will again see more than 1 billion people participating in activities around the world to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis and environmental degradation and the need for immediate action. This year, it also presents a major... Continue Reading →
Earth Day 2021 Is Set to Galvanize Climate Action (repost)
Remembering climate change…a message from the year 2071
Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time. MORE...
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