Are you suffering from a bout of eco-anxiety? Do you feel angry and infuriated about the lack of Climate Change action? Do you not know how to deal with all this negative energy and pent-up aggression? Never fear, the Genus app is here! 

Introducing to all the youths across our great nation, behold the Genus app! Developed to address those nagging feelings of utter despair and anger you may have due to the relentless push by your teachers across every subject throughout your whole schooling life that the planet is doomed, due to man-made climate change. 

Thanks for indulging in that satirical Genus app advertisement. It’s no joke though. The Genus app is currently being trialled in 40 schools across the country.

Screenshot from www.genus.earth

The term eco-anxiety is described according to Dictionary.com as:

‘Anxiety caused by a dread of environmental perils, especially Climate Change, and a feeling of helplessness over the potential consequences for those living now and even more so for those of later generations.’

Whilst not classified as a mental illness, it surely will be eventually. Its affirmed existence is already proving to be a generous cash cow for psychologists faced with a rising tide of terrified children.

Eco-anxiety’s growing notoriety does nothing for the legitimate mental health issues suffered by so many.

Co-founder of the Genus app Jon Owen states, ‘There’s an eco-anxiety which is very real and I don’t like the thought of this generation growing up and worrying about Climate Change.’ (Education HQ).

Interestingly, Owen states that by using his app, ‘Teachers no longer have to choose between the planet and curriculum, because we combine the two.’

I hate to break it to Owen, but the curriculum has been loaded with Climate Change ideology and a green activist agenda ever since schools embraced Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth over 13 years ago.

The influential lobby group, Climate Change Council, published A New Guide for Parents: Managing Eco-Anxiety in your Kids with author Kate Charlesworth consulting her trusty psychology and paediatric colleagues to conclude that anxiety and depression is brought on in the tween (early teen) years when kids begin to understand ‘the urgency and enormity of the climate challenge’.

Charlesworth also points out that ‘as mental health professionals are quick to note … “eco-anxiety” is not actually anxiety – it’s an appropriate and rational response to the robust scientific evidence and the climate breakdown that we are beginning to witness’.

Many people, including professional scientists, would contradict that statement and its apocalyptic prediction. One only needs to look at the emotionally charged responses from Climate Change poster child Greta Thunberg to realise Climate Change responses have been anything but ‘rational’.

The dying Great Barrier Reef is often an example of the so-called ‘climate breakdown’ we are witnessing.

This assertion is challenged by the likes of Peter Ridd – Australian physicist, author, and former professor at James Cook University (JCU). He is also a well-known contributor to The Spectator Australia.

Peter Ridd recently delivered an information session titled, Is the Great Barrier Reef Doomed? as part of Samuel McClelland’s brainchild TAACT (True Arrow Academy of Critical Thinking).

As highlighted by the recent report from the Institute of Marine Science, the reef has record high coral cover and should be cause for celebration. However, this simply does not fit with the doomsday narrative so it received little attention in the mainstream news.

As Peter Ridd writes, ‘The gross misrepresentation of the state of the reef is not a victimless crime. Schoolchildren around the world have been indoctrinated to believe the reef is almost finished.’ (The Australian August 5, 2022).

It’s why this recent session with TAACT is so vitally important as it is directed at our youth, providing them with the information and tools they need to share the truth about our reef with their peers and raise talking points that include: peer review processes, the legitimacy of the institutions we are supposed to trust, and media fear-mongering.

In contrast to Owen’s Genus app for school children developed in response to heightened fears and anxieties, Samuel McClelland has established TAACT to encourage our youth to critically think about issues such as Climate Change and encourage inquiry-based learning. To explore ideas, have robust discussion, and question without fear of retribution is what should be evident in every educational setting, but the reality is quite different.

TAACT is in the early phases of becoming an educational resource platform connecting youth with academic heavyweights.

A former schoolteacher himself, Samuel McClelland is no stranger to the Education Department’s indoctrination program. His attempt to challenge the status quo in his school was not tolerated and led to his resignation. This type of pressure experienced by teachers to fall in line is extraordinary. It is coerced solidarity among teachers that is the result of the perceived pressure of the mob, exerting their influence and stranglehold over their colleagues who are too fearful to speak out against the agenda of climate alarmism, gender identity, socialist activism, and Critical Race Theory.

It really is no wonder the youth of today are experiencing ‘eco-anxiety’. The emotionally charged undertone of the curriculum can only produce this kind of result. No hope, no positivity, and no rational thinking. Just anger, resentment, and an intolerance for contrary ideas. Dissenters be damned…