A "Lancet" survey of 10,000 16-25 year olds in 10 countries, including Australia, found that 84% of them were "moderately to extremely worried" about climate change.

Given that people of that age group have little knowledge, and little experience of life, it's a fair bet that it is not climate change itself (a perfectly normal and regular phenomenon) but the SCAREMONGERING and LIES about climate change and its causes that has them worried.

Fifty percent of these naive kids were feeling sad, anxious, angry, powerless and guilty. Seventy percent of them said that the future was frightening.

What terrible damage the climate maniacs have done to up and coming generations.

'Given that people of that age group have little knowledge'

There's your mistake right there

'assuming they don't have knowledge'

They must have a significant amount of knowledge...
- To think and speak as strongly and passionately as they do, right?

Dear Armchair Critic,

Correct. Most of the 16-25 year olds I know are pretty well versed in the facts around climate change. They are generally exposed to up to date science through their schools and universities and have open enquiring minds. They are far less captured by the politics and have been less exposed to old school rightwing media thus able to assess the facts rather than the spin.

They have every right to be concerned about their futures rather than the chooks on here who aren't going to be around when this thing gets hairy.

The planet is warming Gr, Gr. That is why we had snow falls in Victoria Yesterday not known in over 70 years according to the ABC. They do not get their facts wrong??

I wouldn't be too concerned about the young and their attitude to the great scare. At that age they have only been exposed to the fear campaign through their teachers and pop culture.

Churchill supposedly once opined "that anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head. If there’s any truth to the observation, one wonders what to make of today’s college students."

But once these people get out of the clutches of public education and into the real world, they rapidly wise-up. Its one thing to he gung-ho for so-called green energy when someone else is paying the bill, quite another when you have a young family and get the next rate rise notice from your power supplier.

My experience with those in the 10-20 year age group is that they are surprised to hear that there is such a thing as a knowledgeable climate sceptic but open to hearing the alternate case.

While it is true that the job of government is to "...to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" it is also true that reality gets a say in the discussion....eventually.

We all know that net-zero (carbon) is as unattainable as zero-Covid was. The generation that sees that trope collapse will be left askant as to what they been led to believe.

The current youth generation has plenty to worry about with regard to their future curtesy of the lockdown spending madness. Worrying about an extra few ppm of carbon in the atmosphere will and already is taking a back seat.

The human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. We've all been there, but we were not smart - just smart arses. If you can't look back and cringe at some of the things you said, did, and thought before you were 30, you are well over the hill, and descending back into ignorance. You probably think that it would be OK for 16 year olds to vote.