There's Greta Thunberg, raging: "You have stolen my dreams!" There's Extinction Rebellion activist Martha Krumpeck, who was on hunger strike for weeks in protest against the Lobau tunnel. And there's the 31-year-old woman who took part in a US study for the specialist journal Climatic Change, which surveyed people frightened by climate change about their desire to have children. "I don't want to bring children into a dying world," she says, "I would so love to be a mother, but climate change is accelerating so rapidly.

Climate anxiety is the name of the phenomenon that has taken hold in recent years. It's no longer a niche topic. Earlier this year, the polling institute Ipsos published a survey in which around 22,000 people aged between 15 and 35 from 23 EU countries were questioned, including around 1,000 from Austria. More than a third of respondents in this country said they were "very or extremely concerned about climate change".

Read the full article by Benedikt Narodoslawsky here and in FALTER 49/21!