Feeling overwhelmed by climate change? Channel that worry into action 👊
It’s tough. You’ve got deadlines to meet, bills to pay, appointments to book and healthy lunches to pack . There are enough angst-inducing things to keep your brain fully occupied from morning to night—the last thing you need is another source of stress. But you may already be affected by one without realizing it: a vague, dark, niggling worry about the state of the planet. It’s called eco-anxiety, and it’s a thing.
Eco-anxiety affects us all Cunsolo first saw the impact of eco-anxiety while working in Labrador with Inuit who have witnessed and mourned the alarming effects of our warming planet for years. But, Cunsolo says, it’s only recently that experts have started to pay attention to the mental effects of climate change. “It can be disabling,” she says, “and it can affect people of all ages in all countries.
Harness your anxiety for good Nancy Prober, a Vancouver psychologist, sees eco-anxiety as a normal response to a real threat and says worry about climate change can be “a precursor to action,” motivating us to make changes.
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