this makes me sad

I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up the scariest thing I had to worry about was earthworms on the ground by the jungle gym.  Or maybe, if there were a smog alert and I wouldn’t be able to go play in the pool.

We had is easy.

Kids nowadays…. well, this report just makes me sad:

No Kidding, One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse, via TreeHugger

 

There’s a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn’t imaginary. Us. One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won’t exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least avery unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey.

Commissioned by Habitat Heroes and conducted by Opinion Research, the telephone survey polled a national sample of 500 American preteens—250 males and 250 females.

On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.

Can you imagine?  I can only think it is awful to feel that scared about your future and then have to be dependent on your parents to turn it around for you.  Most parents worry about grounding their kids and what impression that will leave…I laugh at the thought of some kid in therapy 30 years from now saying… “if only they had saved the world”… 

 

But seriously, guys…. if only we would save the world