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The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too | CNN
2024-03-07 in CNN InternationalClimate scientist Bill McGuire writes on his conundrum: what’s happening to our planet scares the hell out of him—but if he shouts the unvarnished truth from the rooftops, will that inspire you to act or to give up?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts | Activism | Science
Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too | CNN
2024-03-07 in CNN InternationalClimate scientist Bill McGuire writes on his conundrum: what’s happening to our planet scares the hell out of him—but if he shouts the unvarnished truth from the rooftops, will that inspire you to act or to give up?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts | Activism | Science
How Therapists Treat Anxiety, Stress Over Climate Change - Bloomberg
2024-02-16 in BloombergMental health experts are reporting a rising number of patients experiencing high levels of stress over global warming and its impacts. How are they treating it?
Tagged under: Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts
I swam everyday to process my grief. Now Cornwall's beaches can be blighted by sewage
2023-08-21 by in inews.co.uk'The cold water helped to calm and soothe me, on both good and bad days'
Tagged under: Fish | Climate Anxiety and Grief
If you’re not terrified, ‘you’re not paying attention’: Politicians, activist urge action amid record-breaking temperatures
2023-07-06 by in Canada's National ObserverThis week, average global temperatures are smashing records left and right, which “should fill everyone with anxiety,” says Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault.
Tagged under: Activism | Collapse | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Climate grief is real – and I cannot keep watching images of our dying planet | David Shearman
2023-07-04 in The GuardianOur leaders’ addiction to economic growth and its consumption of environmental resources has me paralysed with fear and solastalgia
Tagged under: Economic Growth | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Climate anxiety is about more than just personal risks - Nature Climate Change
2023-06-29 (or before) in NatureTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
We don’t have to be overwhelmed by climate anxiety. Feel the pain, then act | Susie Orbach
2023-06-25 in The GuardianWe might be scared and not know what to do. But as a new film reveals, that can help
Tagged under: Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Sally Weintrobe | Climate Breakdown Shakedown - Climate Grief | Extinction Rebellion UK
2023-05-26 (or before) in YouTubeSally Weintrobe speaks to XR Greenwich on the topic of Climate Grief.“Most of us have been living in a bubble of disavowal about global heating”, Sally Weint...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Bubble | Climate Anxiety and Grief
On Climate: Grieve, Cry, Don’t Give Up!
2023-05-17 in Common DreamsGrief calls climate activists to embrace the most difficult challenge: to fight to save as much life as possible and—hopefully—to restore some of what’s gone.
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Studio Bonn – How to cope with fear? – Global Nerve Systems with Zoë Ruge, Rebecca Nestor & Lu Yang
2023-05-12 (or before) in YouTubeWeniger Fliegen, weniger Fleisch: Alle kennen die praktischen Ratschläge zur Milderung des Klimawandels. Aber ist das Überleben des Planeten ein rein technis...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
‘They are despairing’: climate crisis weighs heavy on mental health of young Australians
2023-04-19 in The GuardianA survey shows anxiety about the environment is prominent among teenagers, including Ruby Bron who feels ‘helpless’ about the future
Tagged under: Activism | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Climate Anxiety | EAUC
2022-04-29 (or before) by in EAUCThe EAUC is the sustainability champion for universities and colleges in the UK.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Sustainability
Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers - BBC News
2022-04-28 (or before) in The BBCThe BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
UK electric vehicle charging network is lagging behind, says Volkswagen
2022-01-26 in The Guardian‘Charging anxiety’ may prevent the government from meeting its 2030 target for mass adoption of zero-emission cars
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Electric Cars | Net Zero | Cars | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions
2022-01-19 (or before) in FrontiersThere is a growing evidence that emotions shape people’s reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is currently a lack of research about the array of various climate emotions. There is also a need for more integration with general research about emotions. This article conducts a preliminary exploration of the taxonomy of climate emotions, based on literature reviews and philosophical discussion. The term emotion is used here in a broad sense, as is common in climate emotion research. Becau...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
The harm from worrying about climate change
2021-10-18 (or before) in BBCClimate anxiety is affecting more people as climate change progresses. But there is a solution that can help ease the worry and slow climate breakdown at once, writes Christine Ro.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey
2021-09-22 in NatureChildren worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found. Children worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found.
Tagged under: Children | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children
Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon
2021-07-25 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanIs it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”
Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
2021-07-25 (or before) in University of California PressGen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science.
Tagged under: Activism | Predictions | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Justice
Excerpt | Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
2021-07-22 (or before) in YES! MagazineBeing fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Excerpt | Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
2021-07-18 (or before) in YES! MagazineBeing fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing
2021-02-14 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comResearch documents the experiences of depression and anxiety evoked by climate change, but little attention has been given to frustration and anger, o…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts
Half of child psychiatrists surveyed say patients have environment anxiety
2020-11-20 in The GuardianResearch finds young people in England feel growing distress about the future of the planet
Tagged under: Children | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
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2020-10-09 (or before) in Climate Psychology AlliancePsychology for understanding and facing climate change and difficult truths – responding to ecological crisis and helping each other engage
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Sustainability
How scientists are coping with ‘ecological grief’
2020-01-12 in The GuardianScientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens
Tagged under: Great Barrier Reef | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Our Burning Planet: Op-Ed: End-of-life anxiety and finding meaning in a collapsing climate
2019-11-19 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsStaring the reality of climate collapse square in the eye means confronting the shattering truth that many of us might not die of old age or natural causes – and will witness untold suffering we feel powerless to stop. Everyday psychotherapy may not be enough to contain the emotional crushing that comes with accepting that we – as individuals and as a species – are in a hospice situation. End-of-life healthcare may gain a new role.
Tagged under: Health | Collapse | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Extinction Rebellion: The only true solution to climate anxiety
2019-11-18 in Christian Climate Action - Direct action, public witness for the climateHolly-Anna Peterson, CCA member and mental health professional, writes about climate anxiety: In the face of climate emergency, the question has been raised about how best to communicate this threa…
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Christianity | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Health
Hope in a time of climate chaos – a speech to psychotherapists
2019-11-03 in Professor Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation to societal breakdownKeynote speech on eco anxiety to professional psychotherapists
Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief
What happens when you can see disaster unfolding, and nobody listens?
2019-10-25 (or before) in Mother Jones - Smart, fearless journalismThe distinct burden of being a climate scientist
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Parents told not to terrify children over climate change as rising numbers treated for 'eco-anxiety'
2019-09-17 (or before) in The TelegraphRising numbers of children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, experts have said, as they warn parents against “terrifying” their youngsters with talk of climate catastrophe.
Tagged under: Children | Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children
'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
2019-08-12 by Dan McDougall in The GuardianIslanders are struggling to reconcile impact of global heating with traditional way of life, survey finds
Tagged under: Arctic | Ice Melting | Global Warming | Greenland | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change
How I stave off despair as a climate scientist
2019-03-03 (or before) in NatureSo much warming, so many dire effects, so little action — Dave Reay reveals how dreams of soggy soil and seaweed keep him going. So much warming, so many dire effects, so little action — Dave Reay reveals how dreams of soggy soil and seaweed keep him going.
Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief | Global Warming
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