Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

This isn't about climate change, but about climate anxiety. The former is an environmental problem; the latter is a psychological one. The two are related in that a solution to climate change also alleviates climate anxiety. As a psychological problem it's more acute and immediate, and therefore capable of attracting more news attention, potentially drawing news attention away from other pressing matters.

But... I feel like nobody cares about climate anxiety except her. Googling the phrase turns up 140,000 hits -- compared to 77,000,000 for "black lives matter". That's a crude metric, though it's also enhanced by the way the first page of results is a scattering of news articles stretched over the past several years.

It's a thing, but it doesn't really appear to be sucking the oxygen out of the room. Maybe it could -- it's true that reporters could be easily drawn to young white college students who really, really care about the environment and are suffering that they can't fix it. It makes a good news story -- occasionally. But I really don't think it has taken focus off of other problems.

So I'm not entirely sure what this is about -- aside from the cynical observation that she is the one who published a book about Climate Anxiety a year ago, whose sales are surely flagging now.