Terrifying our children with doom mongering propaganda on climate change is nothing less than abuse
DOUGLAS MURRAY: Terrifying our children with doom mongering propaganda on climate change is nothing less than abuse By Douglas Murray For The Mail On Sunday 00:12 19 Jan 2020, updated 08:08 19 Jan 2020 Have your children got eco-anxiety? How would you know if they had? According to a variety of psychologists and psychiatrists, talk of a ‘climate crisis’ has led to an upsurge in young people reporting feelings of anxiety, helplessness and guilt. The symptoms of this newly coined syndrome are real enough, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists – and why wouldn’t they be in a world pumped full of one-sided propaganda? We saw this over Christmas when Channel 4 screened a special edition of Gogglebox called Gogglesprogs, which featured viewers as young as six. The children were shown watching as the BBC parroted untrue claims by Extinction Rebellion (XR) that ‘scientists say we have only 11 years to act’. And their response was all too understandabl...