Researchers and therapists say that grief linked to climate change is on the rise.
An artist discovered the uneasy feelings she had about climate change were akin to mourning. She’s channeling those emotions through her art.These are often manifestations of a deeper grief brought about by climate change. Experts say the phenomenon is growing , and it’s something we have to confront.
“We don’t want to get stuck in the space of grief forever,” Atkinson said. But “the ability to move forward is predicated on the ability to acknowledge losses and to openly grieve.” The first step, she said, is to give yourself permission to feel whatever you are feeling, even if it seems silly or overblown, and to honor it.
“The message we get is that our grief is somehow deviant,” she said. But grief is a normal, healthy response to loss, examples of which are easy to find in a warming world.Grappling with climate grief can also mean accepting that we have all — knowingly or not — contributed to the problem, said“We have gone on doing things we shouldn’t have done for decades,” Randall said. “The guilt can’t be assuaged by somebody saying, ‘no, no no, it’s not your fault.
, an expert on ecological change and mental health at the Labrador Institute of Memorial University in Canada.
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