The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion

exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.

Pour Cunsolo et Ellis, il y a un troisième type de peine écologique, lié à la perte d’un futur anticipé85. Ponctuel ou chronique, il tient au changement des représentations que l’on se fait d’un avenir (ou d’une absence d’avenir), et touche plutôt les jeunes. Il s’apparente à ce que d’autres ont appelé le syndrome de stress pré-traumatique, c’est-à

one is happy about this. No one thinks this is the right way to live. But we don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to feel. And so, a part of us falls silent. We play tricks on our soul. We slide into a strange double life, “caught,” says eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, (see page 187) “between a sense of impending apocalypse and the fear of acknowl

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.

climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety—terms that did not exist a few decades ago but are now widespread phenomena.