Youth Climate Anxiety

Diahann Hughes Hawkins
6 min readNov 10, 2021

No more ignoring the ‘stress cracks’ shifting the foundations of children’s wellbeing.

Image by Zara Hawkins 2021

Most parents and grandparents should be able to remember the backdrop of ‘doomsday’ in our childhood — the threat of nuclear annihilation. Some can even remember nuclear war drills at school, anti-nuke demonstrations and WWII history lessons teaching the game theory strategy of MAD (mutual assured destruction) during the Cold War years…

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Diahann Hughes Hawkins

Researcher, reformer and home educating mother with a passion for discovering the best solutions to 21st century learning. connectivelearning.net