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The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion
Eco-anxiety, or climate anxiety, covers a range of responses to climate change, from fear about the future, to shame and guilt over consumption, to anger and grief over what has and will be lost.
Welle • How to cope with eco-anxiety
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Albrecht studied the experiences of persistent drought and large-scale open-cut coal mining on individuals in Australia. In both cases, people exposed to environmental change experienced negative emotions, exacerbated by a sense of powerlessness and a lack of control.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
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There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling - depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage - are simply a consequence of unse
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in an unstable, unpredictable world, ‘home’ becomes an increasingly fluid and emotional concept.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
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Coming to terms with climate change and its effects while living in constant uncertainty about the world’s future is challenging for any human being.
How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
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Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.
Nicholas Boni • No Matter How Rich You Are, You Can’t Own the Sea
Keely Adler added
Our personal experiences of loss and suffering are now bound inextricably with dying coral reefs, melting polar caps, the silencing of languages,