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'Are you feeling anxious about climate change? You're not alone. And it's
precisely that connection that two psychologists think can help explain where
climate anxiety comes from and help ease it.
Writing in
Nature Climate Change, psychology researchers Anne van Valkengoed
and Linda Steg make the case that the sickening anxiety many people feel about
how fast Earth is heating up is a "healthy and empathetic" response to the
incalculable loss of millions of species and human lives that we're told is in
the cards.
Citing recent research and interviews, they go on to argue that climate anxiety
manifests not from people's fears of how they may personally be impacted, as
other researchers have suggested, but out of concerns for "global and societal
consequences of climate change and impacts on animals and vulnerable
populations."
"At least in the Global North, many people experience climate anxiety primarily
out of concern for others and the natural world," the pair from the University
of Groningen in the Netherlands write in their commentary, a response to an
earlier article suggesting that climate anxiety stems from personal risks to
people's livelihoods.'
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
