ABSTRACT
The psychology of not having enough water to drink is immediate – this has heightened widespread anxiety and frustration amongst people, especially youths. As a young person, I am torn between solving the climate issues I live with daily in South Africa and being a youth free of this burden. World leaders pledged, to the whole world during COP26, that they’ll put an end to climate inaction. However, it is frightening that we have not seen them since. Suffocating in thirst, eco-anxiety and the trauma left by climate catastrophes, young people like me continue to be the bigger person in the room.
