Billie Eilish Opens Up About Her Climate Anxiety and How it Makes Her Want to “Barf All Over the Floor”

Billie Eilish recently opened up about her “climate anxiety” and how it makes her want to “barf all over the floor”, according to Vogue.

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Eilish was featured on the latest cover of Vogue, where she opened up while sharing the spotlight with other young activists and was very open about her climate anxiety. Eilish asked a group of young activists about managing their feelings when it comes to the state of our planet.

“It makes me want to barf all over the floor,” Eilish said. “We all wish that we could just do it ourselves. I wish I could just make changes in my life and save the world alone.”

She told Vogue that while she does a lot to help the environment, such as her efforts to cut her carbon footprint, she tries not to “be in people’s faces about it” because they don’t seem to respond well to that.

“It makes the causes that you believe in look bad, because you’re, like, annoying the shit out of everybody,” Eilish said. “I don’t want to be parading around like, Look at me! I’m making a difference. I just want to be making the difference and shutting the f*** up about it.”

Eilish does, however, still use her platform to educate her millions of fans about climate change and often partners with nonprofit organizations to make her tours eco-friendly and vegan.

“I’m still not shoving information down people’s throats,” she said. “I’m more like, I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m just going to tell you why I do this … But you’re also a bad person if you don’t do it.”

She did admit some guilt about things that she could be doing or not doing to help the planet. She explained that she shouldn’t be making or selling products or anything like that.

“It’s just more shit to go into the landfill one day. I know that,” she said. “But no one’s going to stop wearing clothes. No one’s going to stop making stuff. So I just do it in the best way I possibly can.”

Ultimately, Eilish said that she wishes she could do it all.

“Grow my own food and live off the grid. Erase my carbon footprint,” she said. “All that does is erase me. When really, if every single person just did half of what they should do, we could fix this.”

Check out the amazing video on Vogue of Eilish and eight other youth activists speaking on Climate change.

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