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103 Foreign Aff. 153 (2024)
Climate Policy Is Working: Double down on What's Succeeding instead of Despairing over What's Not

handle is hein.journals/fora103 and id is 577 raw text is: Climate Policy Is Working Double Down on What's Succeeding Instead of Despairing Over What's Not KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER Climate change is not just transforming the environment: it is also exacting a marked toll on mental health. In July 2023, scientists at Yale published a study of the psychological effects of climate change on adults in the United States and found that seven percent were experiencing mild to severe climate-related psychological distress. Among millennials and members of Gen Z, the figure is ten percent. A global study published in 2021 by The Lancet Planetary Health found that 59 percent of respondents between the ages of 16 and 25 were very worried or extremely worried about climate change. These young people despaired of attempts by their governments to address the climate crisis and reported feeling that older generations had betrayed their generation and future ones: 77 percent of young Brazilians felt this way, as did 56 percent of young Americans. KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Interim Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University. MAY/JUNE 2O242 153