Extreme Environmental to Prevent Early-Onset Dissociation and Cognitive Paralysis Content Rating: The Case for Age-Gating Climate Crisis Content

Abstract

To meet UN Sustainable Development Goals, climate crisis narratives have been integrated into media content under the assumption that early exposure to ‘environment in danger content’ equates to empowerment even though pre-frontal cortex of young brain is not developed to tackle existential threats. The researchers acknowledge the danger of Climate Change by anthropogenic activities but argue that unregulated dissemination of existential threat content to pre-adolescents is not catalyzing environmental activism but rather inducing Early-Onset Dissociation and Cognitive Paralysis in young brains.

The researchers referred to Yerkes-Dodson Law, which stipulates that stress can increase performance but only up to a certain level, after which the performance of the individual starts declining due to enormous stress and anxiety. A Digital Toxicity Meter to rate and label ecological content using colour based rating system, ranging from mild to extreme/gore, is suggested for Age-Gating climate content, particularly for pre-adolescent youths.

A mixed research methodology is adopted comprising doctrinal analysis and empirical inquiry with Universe 9 to 12 years of age as we examine the Mental Health Act, 2017 and UN Convention on the Rights of Child, 1989. It is intriguing to note that roughly 78% of the pre-adolescent youths targeted under the realms of this study constantly worry about the existing climate catastrophes and are under stress.