Essay by Eric Worrall
… “Over half think humanity is doomed, 56% worldwide, 51% in the UK, 73% in the Philippines,” Ms Hickman says.” …
Climate change is harming my mental health
By Morven Mckinnon
BBC Scotland News
Until two years ago Jennifer Newall was working at the forefront of climate change research.
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“It dawned on me,” she says. “The physics behind this haven’t changed in my lifetime. They’re not going to change going forward.”
Jennifer says she realised action was needed urgently and she no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying the effects.
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‘Over half think humanity is doomed’
There is a growing recognition that environmental change affects not just physical but also mental health – although there is still relatively little research into the cognitive impact of it.
In 2021, Bath University lecturer, psychotherapist and researcher Caroline Hickman and her colleagues examined data from 10,000 young people, aged 16 to 25, living in 10 different countries.
About half of those who took part in the survey reported feeling sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless or guilty.
The study, published in Lancet Planetary Health, found that while threats faced in different countries varied – from food insecurity to pollution or flooding – there were similar levels of anxiety.
“Over half think humanity is doomed, 56% worldwide, 51% in the UK, 73% in the Philippines,” Ms Hickman says.
“So there’s more closeness in relationship. Being at a distance from it physically doesn’t protect you from the emotional and cognitive impact.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65633082
The abstract of the study;
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
- Caroline Hickman, MSc †
- Elizabeth Marks, ClinPsyD †
- Panu Pihkala, PhD
- Prof Susan Clayton, PhD
- R Eric Lewandowski, PhD
- Elouise E Mayall, BSc
- Britt Wray, PhD
- Catriona Mellor, MBChB
- Lise van Susteren, MD
Summary
Background
Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally and its relationship with perceived government response.
Methods
We surveyed 10 000 children and young people (aged 16–25 years) in ten countries (Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, the UK, and the USA; 1000 participants per country). Invitations to complete the survey were sent via the platform Kantar between May 18 and June 7, 2021. Data were collected on participants’ thoughts and feelings about climate change, and government responses to climate change. Descriptive statistics were calculated for each aspect of climate anxiety, and Pearson’s correlation analysis was done to evaluate whether climate-related distress, functioning, and negative beliefs about climate change were linked to thoughts and feelings about government response.
Findings
Respondents across all countries were worried about climate change (59% were very or extremely worried and 84% were at least moderately worried). More than 50% reported each of the following emotions: sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty. More than 45% of respondents said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning, and many reported a high number of negative thoughts about climate change (eg, 75% said that they think the future is frightening and 83% said that they think people have failed to take care of the planet). Respondents rated governmental responses to climate change negatively and reported greater feelings of betrayal than of reassurance. Climate anxiety and distress were correlated with perceived inadequate government response and associated feelings of betrayal.
Interpretation
Climate anxiety and dissatisfaction with government responses are widespread in children and young people in countries across the world and impact their daily functioning. A perceived failure by governments to respond to the climate crisis is associated with increased distress. There is an urgent need for further research into the emotional impact of climate change on children and young people and for governments to validate their distress by taking urgent action on climate change.
Funding
AVAAZ.
Read more: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext
The fact is there is zero evidence global warming would reduce the survival prospects of humanity, quite the opposite.
Even if, and this is a big if, some nations became intolerably hot, vast regions of other nations like Canada, which are currently only marginally inhabitable, would become temperate climate paradises.
Anyone who disputes my description of Canada as “marginally habitable” due to extreme cold needs to explain why 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles from the southern border. The northern part of Canada sometimes drops below the surface temperature of Mars.
There is substantial evidence that humans would do very well indeed if the world warmed. Monkeys emerged as a significant presence in the fossil record during the PETM, Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when temperatures were at least 5C hotter than today. Our monkey ancestors thrived in the warmth of the PETM and spread across much of the world, only to retreat when the world cooled.
Rapid Asia–Europe–North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
Thierry Smith thierry.smith@naturalsciences.be, Kenneth D. Rose, and Philip D. GingerichAuthors Info & Affiliations
Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, and approved June 9, 2006
July 25, 2006
103 (30) 11223-11227
Abstract
True primates appeared suddenly on all three northern continents during the 100,000-yr-duration Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum at the beginning of the Eocene, ≈55.5 mya. The simultaneous or nearly simultaneous appearance of euprimates on northern continents has been difficult to understand because the source area, immediate ancestors, and dispersal routes were all unknown. Now, omomyid haplorhine Teilhardinais known on all three continents in association with the carbon isotope excursion marking the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Relative position within the carbon isotope excursion indicates that Asian Teilhardina asiatica is oldest, European Teilhardina belgicais younger, and North American Teilhardina brandti and Teilhardina americana are, successively, youngest. Analysis of morphological characteristics of all four species supports an Asian origin and a westward Asia-to-Europe-to-North America dispersal for Teilhardina. High-resolution isotope stratigraphy indicates that this dispersal happened in an interval of ≈25,000 yr. Rapid geographic dispersal and morphological character evolution in Teilhardina reported here are consistent with rates observed in other contexts.
Read more: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0511296103
The primates reached North America through Greenland and Canada. Conditions were benign enough in the Arctic that tropical weather loving primates crossed regions which are now buried under permanent glaciers.
Given this irrefutable proof that a warm climate is good for primates, why do so many people, even some with scientific training, cling to the psychologically damaging fantasy that if the temperature climbs a little we’re all doomed? Why are kids terrified daily in classrooms, to the point some of them destroy themselves with hard drugs, or commit suicide?
One can only speculate what motivates such trauma, why some people find it easier to cling to damaging fantasies than to look at the evidence. But looking back through history, it’s easy to identify many similar episodes of apocalyptic belief – Jonestown, fear of the bomb, fear of Covid, fear of witches, it’s a long list.
The only relief if you can call it that, is that belief in the climate apocalypse is rapidly being displaced by fear of malevolent AI. Across the world, governments are moving to “contain” this new imaginary threat. I suspect fear of AI if anything will be even worse than the climate crisis, because AI is all around us.
But during the transition to the new imaginary threat we may if we are lucky gain a few years of peace, during which the brainwashing messages imposed on kids are confused and ineffectual. There may be a short period of time when our children to grow and thrive without being brutalised daily by authoritatively compelling messages of certain doom.
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People are waking up slowly to the incessant propaganda machines. Hopefully, this accelerates.
Waking up all right…
‘This Really Needs To Stop’: Elon Musk Just Slammed Ireland’s Plans To Slaughter 200K Cows For Climate Change — 3 Top Green Stocks That Actually Make A Difference (yahoo.com)
And Dems want Biden to declare a “climate emergency” over Canadian fires.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/08/dems-seize-on-wildfires-to-demand-biden-declare-a-climate-emergency/
Note how those television items about those fires repeatedly refer to “toxic fumes”. Are they really toxic? I doubt it – nasty, possibly dangerous, but that’s not the same as “toxic”. I think it is just journalistic exaggeration!
Whenever anyone says “toxic” I ask what the toxin is. Blank stares soon occur.
probably not nearly as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes
The same leftists who insist that man came from apes, and evolved now think man cannot metabolize wood smoke?
After spending hundreds of thousands of years since the first use of controlled fire for cooking and heat?
Something they obviously want the poor of the world to continue to do in their homes, cook over wood or dung fires, because they are trying to end economical electricity and fossil fuels?
Time to chide Nick Stokes because this is what he wants, the poor huddled around wood or dung fires. What else could he want since he supports the massive waste entailed by the building of useless wind and solar generation capacity and electric virtue signaling transportation methods.
Many lefties think that through this mechanism “the sky is falling!” they will somehow be able to SOAK THE RICH and come out wealthy victors in the end, and defeat their political enemies. These folks have twisted psyches.
Perhaps not “SOAK THE RICH and come out wealthy victors” but rather BILK THE POOR and come out WEALTHIER victors
Xhosa cattle.
The Xhosa cattle slaughter, an attempt to summon their dead ancestors by killing all their cattle, to use sorcery to drive out the European invaders, is one of many attempts to use magic to change the world.
The failure of all these attempts is one of the strongest evidences that magic isn’t a thing in our world. If all the ancient world’s magical wisdom could not compete with the technology of Europe, then whatever they were doing was not of practical value.
The only magicians who succeeded were engineers – people like Archimedes, whose scientific death machines held back the might of the Roman Empire, and Orban the armourer, whose giant cannons broke the walls of Constantinople, the last outpost of the Roman Empire.
The get out of jail free card in this case was that not everyone killed their cattle so it didn’t work.
I wonder if the number who didn’t kill their cattle was 10% – comparable to the number who refused Covid vaccine.
If government figures are to be believed.
We know governments are, at best, cavalier with their climate numbers. Why would we expect them to be any better with covid?
I wonder what percentage swallowed the party line and got the 2 shots and all the subsequent boosters.
My wife and I never got the crap MRNA therapy. Then again, we were already retired and were not in the position to be forced to do so to keep our jobs.
Please, like not using “capitalism’ without crony before it, and using FREE ENTERPRISE for what it is, do not use “vaccine” for the covid protocols of government, since they were and are not vaccines. The only true vaccine was the Johnson and Johnson vaccine which the government pushed people away from. Only one dose needed?? Ridiculous, how much crony capitalist money can your friends make from only one $10.00 dose?
The left and the useful idiots of the MSM do a very good job of defining WHAT words are t be used in every debate.
Are you pro life of ANTI ABORTION?
Do you believe in CAGW and think that massive societal change is required to address it, or are you Climate Change Denier?
Do you believe that 6 year olds can determine what sex they “identify” as or are you a close minded bigoted transphobe?
Do you think the boarders of all advanced western countries need to be wide open to those, almost exclusively male, “immigrants” to come to rape and pillage once civilized countries or or you racist?
BTW, love your posts Willis. Just hate the use of “vaccine” for what is only a therapy with extensive long term side effects and the ability of boosters to wipe out natural immunity so that the reboosted can get the China virus over and over again.
BTW: J and J true vaccine is no longer available in the US.
You seem to be in ignorance of the Englishman who manipulated the Xhosa by predicting an eclipse? It is not an example of primitive backwardness, but of early modern psychological warfare.
…exploiting primitive greed, of course. Always greed. An Economic Hitman, if you will, cattle being the currency of the tribesman.
Doomsday cult or mental illness? A false dichotomy.
Both.
“It dawned on me,” she says. “The physics behind this haven’t changed in my lifetime. They’re not going to change going forward.”
That is the fundamental truth – 50 years ago the climate enthusiasts had hope that this was a new frontier, that it would blossom into a major field of study, full of wonderful scientific breakthrough’s and innovations. Instead the reality is slowly dawning that climate science 50 years ago was as good as it gets, that this is a failed hypothesis and complete dead-end science. The sheer frustration and hopelessness that these people suffer when it dawns on them that they have completely wasted their life, career and opportunities on nothing must be overwhelming.
Mental illness – yes. Doomsday mentality – probably; after all, what’s left when you’ve lost all hope.
They haven’t wasted their lives, just like con-artists and advertising executives they’ve made a comfortable life for themselves shoveling virtual manure, integrity be damned. For at least 70 years or so, truth takes a back seat to being considered right and bullying people to enforce that.
I think there has always been a difference between the ones that knew it was a con or hoax and busily made piles of money whilst holding their nose, and those that actually believed the schist, believed that they were actually doing something worthwhile. It’s the latter crowd that I can see having real issues when they discover it’s all turning into c£@p.
The incessant propaganda that the sky is falling in ,in their words climate change ,global warming and now the end of civilization is the worst hoax ever attempted on the human race .
What has changed in 40 years since this scam hit the air waves and news papers?
The world has warmed just over half a degree Celsius with a bit less Arctic sea ice but more Ice on Greenland and Antarctica.
Nothing else has changed except storms are not as strong and weather still does what weather does .
Sea level is not accelerating and a rise of 6 inches in the next 100 years poses no problem .
The climate varies year to year some times a little warmer sometimes colder .
This manufactured scare is doing immense harm to young people as they are constantly taught at schools and universities that it is all our fault .
Some how those of us that can see that this is a scam have to place the true facts before the public before more harm is done to our young people.
WE have to stand up and tell the world that it has been far warmer many times in the past ,that the worlds climate is not controlled by trace gasses but by the sun and ,the earths orbit around the sun .
I survived the falling sky of …2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and so far 2023.
How long can you keep dodging and weaving fast enough? Mighty is the bureaucracy!
Yes, the bureaucracies of Western countries cause me more anxiety than anything else.
Look at what the first study referenced in the head post said and consider how my responses to such a survey would have affected their results. That survey can’t help but mislead with its presumption that everyone answering a certain way does so out of belief in Climate Emergency ™
emphasis added
Was there any effort to segment the responses as to whether the anxiety is caused by the perceived bogus threat or to the clear and present danger of the government response to the hoax?
Of course the point was not to obtain valid data but to conclude that a majority want more climate communism.
“the worst hoax ever attempted on the human race”
The smartest thing Trump said or something similar.
That abortion isn’t murder should rank ahead of climate change and the ‘Final Solution’ in my opinion – for the sheer number of deaths and the complete wilful ignorance of some people. Heard a case of a woman getting her n-th abortion, all happy and proud of her rights, got curious and wanted to see the ultrasound that the abortionist was using in the procedure – and was horrified to realize how wrong she had been and how much she had been lied to. A famous abortionist in Canada, who had done many 100s of abortions, and didn’t realize the truth until he got the idea of using ultrasound to make a training video – it didn’t realize what he had done till he saw the baby squiming away from his instruments.
I get that feeling that humanity is doomed every year when pride month rolls around. I think they’re wrong to attribute all the naysaying to climate issues.
Watch a gay pride parade then tell me humanity is progressing.
They should just be who they are- and stop pestering the rest of us. They have rights and we should have the right to not hear about them every day.
That was pretty much the case with gays and lesbians over the decades. Then they got mixed up with the radical trans movement through intersectionality: LGBTQ+. Gays and lesbians support the radical trans movement as a consequence of intersectionality; I’m oppressed, you’re oppressed so I will support your movement. The problem is that the radical trans movement has gone so overboard in their grooming of children and invasion of women’s spaces that, through intersectionality, gays and lesbians are also receiving push-back whereas previously they had been accepted into the larger American society.
Radical trans are tarnishing the Pride movement’s brand. It appears that feminist lesbians are on the forefront of a movement to separate traditional gays and lesbians from the radical trans agenda.
No. The radical trans movement is inherently homophobic, indeed proud of it – it’s targeting young gay men and women in order to convince them, at a turbulent time in their lives, that they are trans, not gay. It’s another form of gay conversion therapy and much more insidious and radical.
In a lesser way, contrast how the entire month of October is given over to Halloween while the Christmas season withers away to the odd Winter Festival and Holiday Tree.
One day soon I expect to see Pride Decade declared. It’s already de facto in place.
Pride goeth before a fall.
We’re just moving back to the pre-Christian Celtic festivals
Imbolc – February morphed into Easter celebrations with eggsBeltane/Bealtaine – May now the start of music festivals, Download, Glastonbury and the restLughnasa – August/September back to school/work after vacationsSamhain – October 31/1 November Hallow e’enWith the Anglo-Saxon Yule December festival thrown in for good measure
Ah yes, ye Goode Olde Days of LGBTQ+ Vikings with their flamboyant horny hats.
I heard a discussion yesterday that counted all the various pride days and months – it totals 150 days out of the year.
As for the holiday observation – I’m seeing Christmas overshadowing Halloween. You get the latter for a couple weeks in October, right about when the Christmas stuff starts showing up too.
I’ll grant that it’s become totally secular, though.
Here in Woke-achusetts, every month is now pride month- what with a LGBTQ+ governor- and virtually an entirely female state bureaucracy, a net zero law on the books- and the governor now just initiated a lock down of the state forests- no tree cutting for at least a year, to “save the planet”.
log it, graze it, or watch it (someday) burn
Welcome to ClimaTown. You’re just in time, the Mann is serving KoolAid in just a few minutes
At the forefront of climate change research. What does that mean? Studying fairies and fairy tales?
surely not studying climate, because as she says, the physics of that has not changed and she understands bu&&er all of that.
It is revealing that a “climate change researcher” would claim that it is “environmental change” itself (which can be measured in fractions of a degree during the lifetimes of those 25 and under) rather than the wild predictions of the “climate change researchers” themselves,,that cause feelings of despair, dismay and doom among half the population. Is that called “projection”.
FUD= Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt a propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing,
public relations, politics, polling and cults per wikipedia. Once you understand
the concept it’s easy to see when it is happening.
There is not a scintilla of goodness or ‘right’ in this story from either side.
Nothing. It is all wrong and going to create, it is creating, a self-fulfilling prophecy with both sides wanting to be simultaneously Thelma & Louise while squabbling over who’s in the driver’s seat
….and here we are in this particular crock, effectively eating our own children.
Why: You know me= You know why = There’s nothing good left on this Planet that’s Properly Good to Eat.
Sorry Eric – those intrepid early ‘tropical heat loving‘ humanids/oids did not go exploring & looking for Nice Weather – as you seem to propose.
They went because they were starving in their old place.
Because they themselves trashed it.
We are starving. Now.
It is fixable but no, everybody wants to be Thelma and is gonna turn the whole rest of us into Louise
This whole thing was seen coming – by several notables – here’s one more.
Peta, the only starving people are those living in nations which have not received the full blessing of our modern fossil fuel powered industrial civilisation.
Peta, a picture is worth a thousand words:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/index-of-cereal-production-yield-and-land-use
Here ya go:
So, what you’re saying is:
Coupled with the availability of spare land, the increase in productivity, plus the increased acreage thanks to CO2-driven greening of border zones, takes care of any fears regarding population growth causing starvation?
Cool!
I have to point out to a phrase Peta uses that is obviously being missed: “There’s nothing good left on this Planet that’s Properly Good to Eat.”
Unfortunately, your cereals productions stats includes millions of tonnes of GMOs, much of it meant for biofuel, and actively toxic as food.
Any clever squiggly-line pictures to illustrate that one for us?
Only if you believe cereals are a good thing and you ignore the trace elements that are constantly removed from the soil and mostly never replaced on a human lifetime scale.
I don’t have a graph handy for meat production or fruit but its pretty much the same thing, food production way up without increasing land use.
As for your contention that trace elements are never replaced, that’s simply not true. That’s what modern cultivation techniques are all about.
A good modern fertilizer is not just “nitrogen”.
Trace element additions can be ordered depending on measured deficits.
According to Christopher Scotese the PETM was even TWELVE degrees C hotter than the present
Because they are ignorant of most history and because they are constantly bombarded with the ridiculous notions, with no understanding of the real motives/
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”Upton Sinclair
This is just the way humanity has ALWAYS behaved.
Read Charlie Mackay’s book ‘Extrordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’…
Or watch Mattias Desment explain it here as an updated 21st century study:
https://youtu.be/ZltdPfal5x0
“This is just the way humanity has ALWAYS behaved.”
True. The difference today is the internet has turned everything up to 11, so many more humans are affected/involved than before the internet.
The internet is a dream-come-true for propagandists of all stripes.
Governments hype the climate catastrophe to engender hysteria in the populace then activists call “for governments to validate their distress by taking urgent action on climate change.” Sure.
It’s clinical psychotic delusion.
We’ve got a lot of nutters in the UK
We have a lot more opportunists.
I had an electrician wire in a whole house petrol generator a couple of years ago. Total cost about £1,500. He called me a month ago trying to flog me solar panels and a battery pack. Presumably thought I was a soft touch, soft enough to pay about £5,000 for this useless kit.
I sent him away with an education.
I’m sure we do have a lot of opportunists, people like Dale Vince and your average MP, landowner etc
Vince has got himself hooked up with Starmer and more importantly, the curriculum.
“Who allowed Dale Vince’s climate curriculum to take over schools”?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-allowed-dale-vinces-climate-curriculum-to-take-over-schools/
Piers Morgan made Vince look like the idiot he is the other night.
But he still has big influence – and money.
I noticed he eliminated all doubt a few days ago when he took to the streets with the Just Stop Oil mob.
Well he and his wife are both eco-freaks and are making a pile out of it so helping to fund Just Stop Oil is good for his bottom line.
“looking back through history, it’s easy to identify many similar episodes of apocalyptic belief – Jonestown, fear of the bomb, fear of Covid, fear of witches”
Before any of them, as the first century after Christ, may believe that the end of the world was coming. The same thing happened as the first millenium came to an end.
All cults whether doomsday or not are an extension of the founders mental problems.
The more bizarre the cult the more evident it is the founder or founders are crazy.
Make what you will of the Climate Alarmist cults…..
Elron was more likely cunning than crazy. He made up some vaguely plausible sounding pulp sci-fi psychobabble and turned it into a nice little earner for the rest of his life.
I imagine you are referring to L Ron Hubbard. As we all can see, being crazy or just money grabbing either way, starting a cult can be very rewarding. Look no further than Gore or Mann or so many others who have travelled first class round the world telling everyone tuning in the world is in danger unless you (not me) change your ways.
His mob tends to be very litigious
I read somewhere, or pehaps I dreamt it, that the Mayan priests kept their dominance over the people by claiming that their rituals and human sacrifices were what kept the rains falling and the world in its place. Then one day the climate changed and the civilisation collapsed, taking all the elites with it and leaving only the peasants with their pigs and their maize, to carry on as they always had.
The peasants probably took some time out to deal with the priests before carrying on as normal
I think you’re basically right but it moved. Didn’t they find links between the mound builder culture in North America and the Mayan cults?
Humanity is doomed and it will be because of the climate. 90,000 years of ice sheets in the northern hemisphere insures the starvation of billions. It is inevitable. But just as with our slightly warming world of today, there is nothing for anyone alive today to worry about.
I’m one of the 49% of UK citizens who isn’t worried about the climate warming.
What I am worried about is what the other 51% are going to do to save us.
Having spent every winter in my youth and young adulthood digging cars out of 2 metre snow drifts, or worrying about getting home from school or work when heavy snow fell during the day then I’m quite happy if my grandchildren don’t know what snow is!
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H.L Mencken – 1918
This ongoing dismal narrative about matters like net zero and Covid-19 is said by the NHS of Great Britain to be producing measurable effects.
Here is a reference to a large paper from NHS 2023:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service/export-data-files/csv-downloads/office-for-national-statistics-data
Here is a graph derived from it, showing the pre-Covid stress on mental health by age group, compared with after.
These scare tactic have to be stopped. Simply, not good enough.
Geoff S
I wouldn’t take the NHS’ word for anything. Especially Covid.
Notice that mental health concerns used to be mainly restricted to younger people. The unrelenting propaganda has shoved mental health problems to those in older age brackets. The 16 to 39 age bracket has gone bonkers, with the 40 to 69 bracket following closely along.
Methinks it would bear tracking the number of nihilist messages broadcast to the TwatGramPost generation glued to their little glass friend.
From my limited interaction with teenagers, I heard way too many references to suicide, self-harm, gender propaganda and sheer hopelessness. I found the severity of this is directly proportional to the kid’s time spent on “social media”. Sounds like a coordinated programme to me…
I did no study, just personal observation. Just like it was obvious to see what is happening to people whose lives were destroyed by covidiot lockdowns and arbitrary punitive restrictions on the right to make a living, just at a time they are expected to take care of more than themselves.
What is saddest, is that it took only two years for our society to decline to the point where a graph is captioned wrong, then whole articles are written on teenage depression, when it is clearly the young adult demographic that is most affected, 25-39, not 16-39.
This study suffers from severe selection bias. They probably attracted those most concerned, which might be a small fraction of the general population. That some people are in panic is well known.