…ts the tools to manage the anxiety or depression or anger those issues can awaken,” Atkinson says. “So, one of the most important aspects of the class is to simply acknowledge this phenomenon head-on.” For Delfin, an environmental sciences major, parts of the curriculum were troubling, even overwhel…
…he greatest threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the “solutions” proposed are, at best, mediocre. From the Paris Climate Agreement, which is not legally binding, to the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland that tried to paint over the cracks of the failures of governments to tackle the issue of climate change and was essentially branded as a failure by the Washington Post, we need to face the harsh and true reality: WE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH!
…f people who are, as Shakespeare might have said, most ignorant of what they’re most assured about. If only we’d acted decades ago, when scientists sounded the first alarm, we wouldn’t be in a predicament that requires schoolchildren to strike once a week for reasonable climate policies.