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103 Foreign Aff. 153 (2024)
Climate Policy Is Working: Double down on What's Succeeding instead of Despairing over What's Not

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          Climate Policy


              Is Working




    Double Down on What's Succeeding

  Instead   of  Despairing Over What's Not

               KELLY   SIMS GALLAGHER







Climate change is not just   transforming the environment:
       it is also exacting a marked toll on mental health. In July
       2023, scientists at Yale published a study of the psychological
effects of climate change on adults in the United States and found
that seven percent were experiencing mild to severe climate-related
psychological distress. Among millennials and members of Gen Z,
the figure is ten percent. A global study published in 2021 by The
Lancet Planetary Health found that 59 percent of respondents between
the ages of 16 and 25 were very worried or extremely worried about
climate change.
  These young people despaired of attempts by their governments to
address the climate crisis and reported feeling that older generations
had betrayed their generation and future ones: 77 percent of young
Brazilians felt this way, as did 56 percent of young Americans.



KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and
Interim Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.


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