 and then it gets into climate anxiety. And Liz Wolf writes, some amount of existential dread and angst is a normal part of being a teenager. Climate anxiety is merely a manifestation of a person's larger anxiety disorder. Feeding children nihilism and fear is a profoundly wrong thing to do, and many adults have been complicit in it. And, you know, this gets into something. This happened to me a few years back. God, good Lord, nine years ago, maybe more.