Sarah Jacquet‐Ray

Yeah, I actually call it eco-nihilism because I started to see not only my students not show up to class, they go into pretty severe depressions where they weren't even leaving their rooms.

Yeah, I actually call it eco-nihilism because I started to see not only my students not show up to class, they go into pretty severe depressions where they weren't even leaving their rooms.

And we hear a lot about young people's mental health crisis, but very few people who are talking about the mental health crisis of young people are saying maybe there's something to do with the climate crisis, maybe there's something to do with the feeling of huge amounts of uncertainty that they face in their adult lives. And they're not looking forward to their futures.

And we hear a lot about young people's mental health crisis, but very few people who are talking about the mental health crisis of young people are saying maybe there's something to do with the climate crisis, maybe there's something to do with the feeling of huge amounts of uncertainty that they face in their adult lives. And they're not looking forward to their futures.

And we hear a lot about young people's mental health crisis, but very few people who are talking about the mental health crisis of young people are saying maybe there's something to do with the climate crisis, maybe there's something to do with the feeling of huge amounts of uncertainty that they face in their adult lives. And they're not looking forward to their futures.

So, yeah, I think that there's that complicity factor, the guilt. I don't want to have an impact. I want to refrain from my negative impact on the planet and this kind of shame for being a human at all, that humanity is inherently just terrible for the planet and doing terrible things. And so, yeah, just wanting to not be around anymore seems like the logical result for a lot of these people.

So, yeah, I think that there's that complicity factor, the guilt. I don't want to have an impact. I want to refrain from my negative impact on the planet and this kind of shame for being a human at all, that humanity is inherently just terrible for the planet and doing terrible things. And so, yeah, just wanting to not be around anymore seems like the logical result for a lot of these people.

So, yeah, I think that there's that complicity factor, the guilt. I don't want to have an impact. I want to refrain from my negative impact on the planet and this kind of shame for being a human at all, that humanity is inherently just terrible for the planet and doing terrible things. And so, yeah, just wanting to not be around anymore seems like the logical result for a lot of these people.

Yeah, so he actually felt so terrible about the climate crisis, and he had been a lawyer for a long time doing litigation around oil companies and trying to fix climate change from the sort of legal perspective. And he had come across so many hurdles and so many walls that he became very, very despairing about the options and pathways for addressing the problem, given our current situation.

Yeah, so he actually felt so terrible about the climate crisis, and he had been a lawyer for a long time doing litigation around oil companies and trying to fix climate change from the sort of legal perspective. And he had come across so many hurdles and so many walls that he became very, very despairing about the options and pathways for addressing the problem, given our current situation.

Yeah, so he actually felt so terrible about the climate crisis, and he had been a lawyer for a long time doing litigation around oil companies and trying to fix climate change from the sort of legal perspective. And he had come across so many hurdles and so many walls that he became very, very despairing about the options and pathways for addressing the problem, given our current situation.

With the tools that we have, we can't fix this problem is, I think, what he ultimately concluded. And he set himself on fire and immolated himself, leaving a suicide note that said something to the effect of, I'm doing to myself what humanity is doing to the planet. I want to illustrate in my immolation. Our dependence on fossil fuels is killing us. And Win Bruce also in 2022 did the same thing.

With the tools that we have, we can't fix this problem is, I think, what he ultimately concluded. And he set himself on fire and immolated himself, leaving a suicide note that said something to the effect of, I'm doing to myself what humanity is doing to the planet. I want to illustrate in my immolation. Our dependence on fossil fuels is killing us. And Win Bruce also in 2022 did the same thing.

With the tools that we have, we can't fix this problem is, I think, what he ultimately concluded. And he set himself on fire and immolated himself, leaving a suicide note that said something to the effect of, I'm doing to myself what humanity is doing to the planet. I want to illustrate in my immolation. Our dependence on fossil fuels is killing us. And Win Bruce also in 2022 did the same thing.

So we've had sort of multiple of these. And I definitely have had students and talked to many people whose children have done this, not immolated, but ended their lives because of how despairing they feel about climate change specifically.

So we've had sort of multiple of these. And I definitely have had students and talked to many people whose children have done this, not immolated, but ended their lives because of how despairing they feel about climate change specifically.

So we've had sort of multiple of these. And I definitely have had students and talked to many people whose children have done this, not immolated, but ended their lives because of how despairing they feel about climate change specifically.

Yes. Yeah. I mean, a climate suicide is, I think, the more common term for it. But yes, there's a sort of nihilistic, logical place to go when you realize that the problem is so big and so bad and you are so small to fix it and you are also part of the problem.

Yes. Yeah. I mean, a climate suicide is, I think, the more common term for it. But yes, there's a sort of nihilistic, logical place to go when you realize that the problem is so big and so bad and you are so small to fix it and you are also part of the problem.

Yes. Yeah. I mean, a climate suicide is, I think, the more common term for it. But yes, there's a sort of nihilistic, logical place to go when you realize that the problem is so big and so bad and you are so small to fix it and you are also part of the problem.