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Acting to Make a Positive Difference
‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
March 2022 / NYT
A growing chorus of young people is focusing on climate solutions. “‘It’s too late’ means ‘I don’t have to do anything, and the responsibility is off me.’”
Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul.
She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
“People are almost tired of hearing how bad it is; the narrative needs to move onto solutions,” said Ms. Wood, 25, a sustainability scientist who communicates much of her climate messaging on TikTok, the most popular social media platform among young Americans. “The science says things are bad. But it’s only going to get worse the longer it takes to act.”
Some climate advocates refer to the stance taken by Ms. Wood and her allies as “OK Doomer,” a riff on “OK Boomer,” the Gen Z rebuttal to condescension from older folks.
If awareness about the climate crisis has never been greater, so, too, has been a mounting sense of dread about its unfolding effects, particularly among the young. Two-thirds of Americans thought the government was doing too little to fight climate change, according to a 2020 Pew study, while a survey last year of 10,000 teens and young adults in 10 countries found that three quarters were frightened of the future.
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- Carlsbad, CA Three-Part-Art Program
- Chatham-Kent, Ontario Municipal Youth Council
- Citizen Science
- Clackamas County, OR Environmental Youth Corps
- Climate Desk
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- Climate News Events Archive ... 1970 to Today
- Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources
- Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
- Columbus, OH Youth Commission
- Creatively Green
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- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Right Now
- Earth Science Eco-Fields
- EarthPOV
- Earthrise
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- Ecolivia
- Ecotourism
- Environmental agreements
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Law, Rollbacks under Trump 2016-20
- Environmental Laws and Modern Environmental Movement
- Environmental movement
- Environmental Protection Agency
- EOS eco Operating System
- ESA Living Planet Announcement - May 2022
- Eureka, CA Youth Protection Act
- European Union Green Deal - Fit for 55
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- Generation Green
- George E. Brown Jr
- Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up
- Glendale, AZ Mayor's Youth Advisory Commission
- Glendale, AZ Mayor’s Youth Advisory Commission
- Going Green
- Google Earth Timelapse
- GP360 NewPages
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