"We’ve got to acknowledge that while we are employing social distancing practices to have very major benefits for the epidemiology of this pandemic, it also has a lot of other implications for people, and mental health is one of them."
While the youth have always felt the immediacy of climate change, older generations continue to brush the issue aside and paint their younger counterparts as foolish and naive. This generational climate gap has massive implications that reach beyond the Twittersphere and into all areas of climate advocacy, from college campuses to Congress.
Combating climate change requires holding fossil fuel producers accountable for their outsized contribution to the climate crisis by implementing carbon pricing to reflect the true cost of fossil fuels.