How climate changes affects children: Promoting hope

Abstract

In a recent JAMA Health Forum article, nurses wrote about the stress facing teens due to climate change. “Growing up in an era of storms and stress — promoting hope among adolescents in the face of climate change” by Allison McCord Stafford, Ph.D., RN and colleagues from Duke University noted that the landmark court case, Held v. Montana, showed the impact of extreme weather on the livelihoods and health of young people. Young people brought the lawsuit. And their testimony — about the damages to the land, farm animals, health, finances, and their worries about their future — was eloquent. It is the older generation that has brought this stress upon them.