81 Percent of Gen Z Students in University Worried About Climate Change

More than 80 percent of Gen Z Australian university students are being influenced by or are experiencing climate anxiety, which is affecting their quality of life. A Curtin University survey found 46 percent of Australian university students were very concerned and a further 35 percent were concerned about climate change. The study, published in Sustainable Earth Reviews, involved talking to 446 students born between 1995 and 2010. Curtin Professor of Sustainability Dora Marinova said climate anxiety is contributing to Gen Z’s “overall sense of unease towards the future.” “These young people are very concerned and, in a way, intimidated by the lack of concrete action being taken to battle climate change,” Professor Marinova said....