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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I feel like it's more likely the dawning realization that the earth may not be suitable for human life in their lifetimes and that the economy and housing market may never support them owning a home or retiring. But yeah surely it's tik tok's fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

As a middle schooler I was afraid that Al-Queda would carry out a terrorist attack in my hometown or that Saddam would use his WMDs on the US. In high school, my grandparents got laid off and lost the farm during the great recession. And yet I just had the local news that was telling me the bad news of the day.

My point being, it can't be healthy being bombarded with hours and hours of bad news every day doomscrolling as opposed to a 15 minute news broadcast in the evening. Especially for kids who don't have the perspective and experience to know its gonna be OK.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

the e earth may not be suitable for human life in their lifetimes

Oh come on, that's a little exaggeration. There is less chance of that now than when we were kids and the USSR was going to blow up the USA and vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You do know that the threat of nuclear war is still being discussed right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yep

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/video-climate-spiral-1880-2022/

https://whyy.org/articles/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-uninhabitable-planet-code-red/

"By 2050, a billion people will face coastal flooding risk from rising seas, the report says. More people will be forced out of their homes from weather disasters, especially flooding, sea level rise and tropical cyclones.

If warming exceeds a few more tenths of a degree, it could lead to some areas becoming uninhabitable, including some small islands, said report co-author Adelle Thomas of the University of Bahamas and Climate Analytics."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/late-prevent-significant-melting-west-antarctic-ice-shelf/story?id=104144755

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm certain you can understand the difference between a claim like "the earth will be unsuitable for human life" and "parts of the world will become uninhabitable".

I'm just as concerned about climate change as the next guy, but hyperbole doesn't help our cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.

Numerous experts said they had been left feeling hopeless, infuriated and scared by the failure of governments to act despite the clear scientific evidence provided.

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”