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Bellingham youth combat climate anxiety through action

Next generation wants a seat at the table

Liam Pratt, Western Washington University student and lead organizer of Students for Climate Action, goes over the agenda inside a classroom.
Liam Pratt, Western Washington University student and lead organizer of Students for Climate Action, goes over the agenda at an April 11 meeting. The organization of Western students recently traveled to Olympia to lobby against the Snake River Dams. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
By Olivia Palmer News Intern
In 2013, professor Sarah Jaquette Ray realized her environmental studies students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, had a problem.  Like many educators, Ray observed a growing number of students struggling with mental health problems stemming from an unexpected source: the climate crisis.   “I felt like there was a really missing story there about the aspects of climate and contemporary politics and the state of the world that wasn't being included in those

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