Climate change will affect our mental health, then, through various pathways.26 It will directly expose populations at the front line to trauma, such as floods, vector-borne diseases and extreme heat, loss of homes, loss of life, loss of health, and loss of ways of life and cultures.

Fortunately, when we’re committed to addressing the stubborn injustices and seemingly intractable problems of the world and we are not bound by so many assumptions, we have the chance to look at deeper patterns in our minds and in how the world works. We have the space to cultivate insight and discernment, to break out of old habitual perceptions a