生态焦虑症是一个新的名词,但绝非新的现象。生态焦虑者的头脑始终萦绕着一件事情,那就是环境破坏。生态焦虑,是对环境灾难的慢性恐惧,这种担忧随着人类发展而日趋严重,许多人认为污染将带给人类不可避免的洪水灾难、饥荒、热浪、物种灭绝,并最终使地球成为死亡星球。
If I don't think the future is worth anything then I'm not going to have children.
If I think it is worth something, I will have children.
We've already seen coastal city flooding, we've already seen forest fires, we've already seen flash floods, we've seen tornadoes.
When big ecological disasters happen around the world, I feel a sense of anxiety.
I feel a sense of sadness and a sense of loss.
So imagine you go outside and you look up in the sky, and there's a comet there.
And you know you've just been told by scientists that that comet is racing toward the Earth and it's going to kill everybody and everything in a big fiery storm.
And nobody else notices the comet.
And you say: "Hey look, there's a comet and it's going to kill all of us".
And people just don't seem to care.
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