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When I was done with how Climate Change impacted the current generation, I was honestly amazed. I loved learning about the different aspects of climate change and how my generation is impacted by it and how it hurts me and my peers in so many ways and I noticed some of these effects in myself and how I perceive Climate Change as a whole. It is scary for me to think about my future and Climate Change being such a large thing but I never thought it impacted me to the thought of it constantly being on my mind. Then I quickly started to realize how big of an impact it carried in my day to day life. 

When I am in the shower I think about cutting it to as short as possible, I always and making sure all the lights are off in my home, I unplug everything as soon as I’m done using it (including my lamp), and I went vegetarian for one of the main reasons being environmental factors. When I realized how much of my identity was contributed to climate change I got really scared. Knowing that the oceans are polluting terrify me, hearing how much the temperatures rising fills me with fear and the fact that this is all a huge part of my future makes me quite honestly live in fear.

When I was finished with my research I learned that I was the type of person to not just read headlines and live in fear but to educate myself at the issue at hand. My peers on the other hand either don’t care or read the headlines and don’t further educate myself. I try my best to tell my friends to avoid single use plastics, go thrifting with me and simply eat less meat. Obviously they’re teens and are still living in their little bubble and I can’t expect anything more than that, when I tell them to eat less meat they laugh and say its to delicious, they think to go thrifting because it is a fun day activity and they actually do avoid single use plastic because they are against pollution. 

When I learned about all the factors being Mental Health, Perception and Activism controlled through fear by our youth. This is absolutely terrified and I hope we change our way and we as a society say yes climate change is a terrible thing happening let’s do something about it, BUT let’s not make posts about it on all our media outlets. I know that ruling the people by fear never ends good and only creates chaos and I do not that to be my worlds reality.