Much of the media is reporting on what may be actual anxiety over climate change after ginning up fear of a climate apocalypse with false stories and exaggerated claims.
“Activists ‘born into the climate crisis’ face another challenge: Fear of the future,” was the headline for a Sept. 16 Washington Post article. “Young people coming of age in an era of climate disasters are trying to channel anxiety about the planet flooding and burning,” according to the writer. The article is probably accurate in reporting about a fear among some young people, but rather than noting that the apprehensions are inflicted by fearmongers like itself, the writer goes on to advance alarmist fiction.
For example, the article's author writes, “But growing up in an era of disasters like never before, people in their teens and 20s are also wrestling with another challenge: anxiety about the burning, flooding planet.”
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