Climate change, distress and the green race
Climate change is a very real thing. Even though we don't yet fully understand the whole package, we can see the big issue, the results, the problems, the challenges. Climate distress is another very real thing. Guilt is a big player in climate change discussion. While many adults do have reason for this guilt, we should not teach it to children. I would like to suggest a better way to resolve this global catastrophe. Distress doesn't win Distress and guilt are certainly not useless or meaningless, psychologically speaking. They might make you not throw that trash on the ground, or might get you to bicycle to work. It's a good idea to reflect on our choices, small and big. Let's remember the right dosage though, as utter distress and suffocating guilt will just destroy people. We need only look at the increasing amount of mental suffering among younger and younger people. We should not teach them guilt about the environment. In fact, pushing this guilt onto our