Climate change: Are you suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’?
The headlines detailing extreme weather events seem to come at you day after day. Your social feed – and just stepping outside – alerts you to record temperatures being set. And yet, still, some people in positions of power deny its full impact.
Meanwhile, an academic paper on climate change – that is so grim it apparently resulted in people going to therapy – has gone viral, with some reports suggesting it has been downloaded more than 110,000 times.
In the words of the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the school strike for climate movement in 2018: “Adults keep saying, we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope, I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic.” Read More
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