Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Young people are increasingly experiencing anxiety due to global environmental and social crises, often referred to as the 'polycrisis.' Organizations like Force of Nature are emerging to provide support networks that help youth channel their climate anxiety into constructive action.
Why it matters
Addressing the mental health impact of climate change on younger generations is becoming a critical component of environmental advocacy.
Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried out,” she says. “Like half the mountain just dug out and disappeared, and so there was just this huge orange face.”
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