Our future (and present) do, of course, include many challenges and fears, some of which may seem insurmountable. But every generation confronts such challenges. And, believe it or not, every person on Earth today was born into a world that by many measures was scarier and more dangerous and uncertain than the one that we inhabit today.
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But more importantly, despite climate change, et al, the world actually isn’t worse off than it has ever been. In fact, across most measures that affect the quality of human (if not animal or plant) life — life expectancy, income, health, death by violence, medicine, social awareness, and justice, to name a few — it’s getting better all the time.
Gen Z: Don’t Write Off Having Kids Over Climate Change Anxiety (businessinsider.com)
Fears like the above emerge when kids are given no historical context, apparently, in their education, while inundated by doomerism news every day. Everything always was precisely as it is in this moment and will always be just like this – or worse – they think.
Am surprised to see this story in Insider. Read it. It is a good story.
