We interviewed 15 Australian primary school children aged between nine and 12-years-old about environmental change, which includes things such as pollution, climate change and deforestation.
Every child knew the environment was changing, and all of them had feelings about it too. Worry was most common. We also heard sadness, anger and hopelessness.
These were thoughtful, complex responses from children paying attention to the world around them.
For their sake as well as for nature we must pull our finger out and get bolshie with our governments to protect the future (do I hear crickets?)
They should be angry, we are trading our bank balances and security for their future. It is one big “fuck you I got mine moment”. Feeling betrayed is only natural.
Be glad you still hear crickets. Insects are declining fast
Very true. Would you like to do a post on the insect decline? If not, I’ll see what I can find.
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-insects-victims-invaders.html
That’s the most recent study I could find but it’s still a couple months old. It doesn’t shed much new light on the trend though, which has been on the media for years now. Not sure if it’s “news worthy” as a Lemmy post, but if you think so please go ahead
Thank you for the article. You are right, it’s not the kind of post that fits here. I’ll see if I can find one that’s more general.
In case you’re interested I’ve jus found out there’s an online pubic talk on the insect apocalypse by the Uni of Tasmania in June: https://www.utas.edu.au/events/2026/june/understanding-the-insect-apocalypse
Nice, thanks. I might tune in
‘I’m mad at the people who could have solved the problem’:
don’t be, when you get older you’ll come to prize your savings account over the environment just like everyone else :)
Funny, although most young people nowadays already don’t know what a savings account is.
