The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
This newsletter explores the rise of youth support networks designed to help children cope with the 'polycrisis' of climate change and global instability. It also examines the emerging industry of naturally occurring underground hydrogen as a potential climate solution.
Why it matters
Understanding how younger generations process global crises and identifying new energy sources are critical for long-term societal and environmental planning.
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This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
Sometime in the late 2000s, six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car in Thailand when she saw a mountain that had been quarried away. It was the first time she recognized that humans could alter the world for the worse.
She carried that knowledge with her, later joining an online group for young people worried about climate change. “I realized that I wasn’t alone,” she says. She was right: global surveys have found that most kids are anxious about the state of the world.
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