🌡️ Gen Z's climate fear

Human-caused climate change is having widespread and significant negative effects on young people's mental health, Axios' Andrew Freedman writes from a new study in The Lancet Planetary Health.

• Zoom in: The researchers analyzed the results of an online survey of about 16,000 young people between the ages of 16 to 25 across America.

😟 They found that 85% of respondents are at least moderately worried, with about 58% "very or extremely worried," about climate change and its effects.

• 38% said their feelings about climate change were interfering with their daily lives.

Between the lines: Respondents identifying as Democrats or Independents tended to be more worried than Republicans. But "this is a kind of less partisan issue in this younger generation," says the study's lead author, Eric Lewandowski of NYU's Grossman School of Medicine.

• A majority of total respondents, including 37.9% of Republicans, stated climate change would make them hesitant to have children.
• And majorities of all respondents, including 57.8% of Republicans, said the issue would influence where they choose to live.