How can you deal with eco anxiety in children?

This article written by Kuhoo R Gupta was originally published in indianexpress.com. Read the original article HERE >

Invest time and energy in building a small terrace garden. Put a lot of indoor plants in your house. Give your kids responsibility to water the pots. Even if you do not have a green thumb, some plants are easily grown.

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has empowered and galvanised many young people and children around the world to read and understand more about climate change and saving the planet from ecological disaster. According to Greta, the impact is leading the world to starvation as world hunger has spiked due to the extreme weather and climate change. Producing quality food is harder under extreme heat conditions. Greta Thunberg, in September 2019 addressed the UN’s Climate Action Summit in New York City with an emotional response by commending world’s greatest leaders for failing to tackle global warming and the climate change. Her speech, “My message is we all are watching you” and “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!”

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