[MCN] climate anxiety in the United States is linked to being young, female, believing climate change will impact you personally

[Lance Olsen]

16-Jul-2025
Self-reporting climate anxiety in the United States is linked to being young, female, believing climate change will impact you personally, and more frequent media and community discussions around climate change
PLOS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION
 A new study describes factors associated with self-reported climate anxiety in the United States, publishing July 16, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Katherine Kricorian from For Good Measure, United States, and colleagues Karin Turner and Christopher Kricorian, a current high school student.  

JOURNAL
PLOS Climate
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090890>

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"On average, the top 1% of global earners – people who earn $130,000 a year or more – cause 110 metric tonnes of carbon emissions each year per person. For perspective, that’s about 2,200 times the carbon burden of a typical citizen of Burundi.

“The world’s 1-percenters out-polluted the poorest half of humanity twice over between 1990 and 2015, and recent estimates suggest they are collectively responsible for more than 11 times the annual greenhouse gas emissions attributed to notorious climate villain ExxonMobil. Meanwhile, the top 10% – which includes earners who make $39,100 a year, a middle class income for individuals in Global North countries like the US – produce nearly half of all carbon harms. 

"No arithmetically coherent plan to cut carbon emissions can ignore this reality.”

https://science.thewire.in/environment/technofixes-elites-responsibility-climate-crisis/

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“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”

William James (1842 –1910)
Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955

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