AMA: My climate activist son needs your help!

This week’s question comes from concerned mum Emma, but it’s one that is cropping up a lot - What to do about the burden young people are shouldering in the face of a crumbling world? Emma is worried her 16-year-old activist son is taking on too much and she’s worried about his climate anxiety.

Research shows one-third of young people have sought counselling or medical help for eco-anxiety. However, my answer to Emma and her son takes a different direction. What if kids are pissed off and we, the adults, are projecting OUR anxiety (and shame?) onto them? I also cover my recent warm jacket purchase and why it is so very not French-fashionable.

SHOW NOTES
I mention in this rant the previous Wild podcast episodes with Meg Wheatley (podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/margaret-wheatle…) and Paul Hawken (podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/paul-hawken-were…) and the one with Margaret Klein Salamon (podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/margaret-klein-s…).
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