Climate inaction risks children's well-being
Climate change, if allowed to continue, will have a dramatic and lasting impact on the lives of our children and grandchildren.YouTube - Aretha Franklin Duets 1993 Chain Of Fools
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Added to this mix is the fact children don't cope as well as adults when dealing with traumatic events such as natural disasters, which are predicted to significantly increase as climate change takes hold.
Trauma exposure in childhood can lead to marked alterations in brain function and longer-term cognitive and mental health impacts.
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In addition, financial hardship, trauma and loss associated with climate-related disasters will likely affect parents' mental health, potentially increasing family conflict and eroding the close, supportive relationships that sustain a child's mental health. In the US, rates of inflicted head injury to children aged under two increased fivefold after one hurricane.
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Dr Lyndall Strazdins is a fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, and co-author of Weathering the future: Climate change, children and young people, and decision making.
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