People experience fear in different ways. When it comes to the climate crisis, some people are alarmed to see extreme weather damage as a norm. For others, however, climate misinformation has exacerbated NIMBY attitudes and stymied mitigation endeavors.
Like many of you, I’ve been loosely following the rise of psychedelics in clinical treatment for things like PTSD. And like many of you, I’ve been curious to try this therapy for my own stresses and traumas — chief among them, climate anxiety. So it is that I took a … [continued]
Climate change has suddenly become much more real for many Americans as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the country.
Recently, I posted a climate anxiety survey here on CleanTechnica, and, as promised, below are the results (so far … the survey is reposted first, so that if you haven’t answered yet and want to, you have the opportunity to complete it without the answers from others influencing your thoughts). … [continued]
Australians shared their climate-related anxieties 10 years ago in a recently published study. The study found that rural Australians are most concerned about “suffering under climate change.” They were concerned about suffering financially. They were concerned about suffering environmentally. They were concerned about health problems and even social challenges.
To grasp the full implications of climate change is daunting — to recognize our part in it all the more so. To fire up a car or step onto an airplane is to defile the very air we breathe. People cope by disavowing their role in climate change.
