Eco-anxious young people will be the ones to clean up construction

By Stephanie Crombie2021-07-22T05:00:00

Source: Morrow + Lorraine

The next generation have a vested interested in saving the planet, the industry must do all it can to harness that determination and drive

In 2017, the American Phycological Association coined a new type of depression – eco-anxiety; defined as “a chronic fear of environmental doom”. While the gravity of environmental damage may not be so severe for richer countries of the northern hemisphere, the sense of helplessness can still be foreboding. It’s less a fear of a severe weather event knocking-out society as we know it: more a fear of future uncertainty, and a sadness at the destruction of the natural world.

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