[drekipus]

> but I think childhood development experts would all agree that's healthy.

Could it be that we think it's healthy because we can just give meds to the kids that it affects?

How would someone even have the ability to say "it's healthy" - I'm struggling to think how it comes about. I think it's healthy for my kids to cry about a worm dying in the garden, but anything less than "anxiety about a dying planet"...

Put it another way: climate change messaging IS totally about anxiety and putting human as the cause, so we can (as adults) change our habits and save the planet. Could it be too much for kids though?

[Braxton1980]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. In school environmentalism was a big deal. We did conservation trips to these ecology parks, we were taught to recycle, and often watched films about animals that might die off due to climate change.

I only felt motivated to annoy my parents to recycle more. Since the effects were not directly in front of me a strong emotional reaction didn't occur.

Perhaps there are children who already have anxiety and latch onto climate change and other problems.

[robertakarobin]

At what age will you permit your kids to leave the walled garden you've created for them?

[drekipus]

I don't give them a walled garden. I let them experience life how they do, and i protect them from predators until they can defend for themselves.

(so in this particular situation, maybe highschool / early adult)

[framapotari]

From what I understand, some of these predators are knowledge?