Climate nightmares: how to reassure a child who is anxious about the planet

One in five children aged eight to 16 have nightmares about the state of the world. Here’s how adults can help

What’s going to happen? Is everyone going to die? Questions that come up a bit in our house, from a concerned eight-year-old. In the past weeks, the focus of the anxiety might have been on you-know-what-19, but before then it was all about the future of the planet.

It is no massive surprise then that a survey for BBC Newsround has found that one in five kids have nightmares about the climate crisis. Or that two-fifths of the 2,000 children polled (aged eight to 16) don’t trust adults to sort it out.

Related: Tears at bedtime: are children's books on environment causing climate anxiety?

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