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EDITORIAL: Youth need hope to face climate change doom and gloom

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“It’s too much sometimes. I know we have to talk about it — do something about it — but sometimes all the bad news makes me want to tune it out. It’s really depressing.”

It was game night at our house and our teenagers and family friends were chatting about everything from the video app Tik Tok to climate change and how being inundated with rapid-fire, doom-and-gloom news about our planet’s future — combined with adults putting a great deal of the “so what are you going to do about it?” onto the youngest generations — is overwhelming our children.

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