By Rosie DiManno, InsideOttawaValley, January 3, 2020 When I was in Grade 1, our
teacher informed us that the sun was actually a star and would burn itself out
within a billion years. Which sent me into paroxysms of terror. WE’RE ALL GONNA
DIE.
For months afterwards, on overcast days, even when a cloud passed over the sun for a few seconds, I was convinced the end was nigh. Oceans would boil, Earth would become uninhabitable.
(...)With good reason, youth are feeling betrayed and even abandoned by a generation whose legacy will be a crippled, endangered orb spinning off its axis. Fast-stepped from street-smartened — stranger danger — to global hyperawareness, bombarded with climate change alarms and apocalyptic scenarios.https://www.insideottawavalley.com/opinion-story/9796069-anxiety-about-the-environment-has-become-the-plague-of-our-times/?s=n1?source=newsletter&utm_source=ml_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=6cf0e4c8dfed7b7e28f22e123857e24f&utm_campaign=ovop_68626&utm_content=a02