Justin Fox, Columnist

Youth Angst Won’t Go Away If We Stop Talking About Scary Things

Climate research isn’t what’s causing anxiety among young people.

April 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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This seems to be an especially stressful and confusing time to be young. Among the reasons: concerns about climate change and how it will affect the lives of those with many decades still ahead of them.