Rarely does a scientific journal publish a poll.
This, presented as the largest international survey disseminated on anxiety generated by climate change, includes 10,000 participants aged 16 to 25, from ten countries including France, India and Australia.
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A significant proportion of children and young people around the world testify to significant distress and a wide range of painful and complex emotions (sadness, fear, anger, helplessness, guilt, shame, despair, grief)"
, write the authors of this work done in May and June and published yesterday in the
Lancet Planetary Health
.
Thus, 75% of those polled consider the future
“frightening”
, and 56% think that humanity is
“doomed”
(48% in France).
Almost 2 in 5 participants hesitate to become parents, 1 in 2 believe that the safety of families will be threatened.
"Desidelization of adults"
For Dr Éric Charles, psychiatrist at the Esquirol hospital center in Limoges, eco-anxiety risks increasing in society, even
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