The dread and worry keeping young Australians up at night

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COMMENT: It's a fine line as a parent between acknowledging scientific reality and causing alarm, especially when you have imaginative children already prone to anxiety

My eight-year-old son has come up with a solution to global warming. "Mum, we need to build a giant space fan to cool down the Earth," he said.There is no denial of climate change in my household. Nor is there any denial that Australia must play its part in reducing emissions. Sure, we can't do it on our own but that's not an excuse to do nothing. Gosh, in another era Australia might even have shown leadership.

The APS says 95 per cent of Australian youth believe climate change is a serious problem – and they're extremely worried. The bushfires are particularly bad this year because the drought has left the bush as dry as a tinder box. Scientists have warned us for decades that climate change will increase the prevalence of drought and bushfires.My heart goes out to everyone affected by the bushfires, which include members of my own family.

Parents can help by being great role models in their own climate change understanding and activism, listening to their children's concerns and encouraging them to be interested in the issues, and supporting them in the choices they make .

 

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The climate has been changing always and forever ... the earth has been changing always and forever ... we have only been on this earth for a short time... your children are being given this disease of anxiety by all the crazy people who get paid to write this kind of articles

Here’s a tip. Sit your kids down and tell them they are not going to die because of climate change. WTF is wrong with you.

I tell them the truth , there’s no climate emergency. No stress . 👍

What epic nonsense from the propagandists from the left

I know. The scientific reality that most bushfires were deliberately lit is enough to keep any young person up at night. Perhaps they shouldn't light the fires then?

But okay to read them the Bible. One of the scariest books ever written!!!

Catastrophic fires, or others events, that`s when humans do show some care,in reality seems humans being become worse then animals,not care for others, one concrete evidences is coming from Coalition Gov. priority for Millions Budget surplus at any costs of lifes lost properties

The cult is hissing, they want everyone in fear, everyone.

Not according to Greta

just let them know that the next mass extinction is rapidly closing in

Seriously are any reporter's working on the rag

“Scientific reality”....? Ok Doomer...

Start reporting news, instead of writing infantile bullsh1t

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