The latest report from the UN’s climate scientists was both incredibly downbeat about climate change and almost entirely ignored by a media fixated on Ukraine. In this episode we consider the communication and changing narratives around climate change, why an unscientific hyper-fatalism has set in with many activists, and what impact this might be having on younger generations terrified humanity itself is going extinct.
‘We’re heading Straight for a Demi-Apocalypse’ – Emma Marris in The Atlantic
Climate anxiety in children – study in The Lancet
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – IPCC report
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