Got climate anxiety? You’re not alone
The prevalence of climate anxiety, or being very worried about the effects of climate change, has grown. But so has the number of people working to alleviate it.
Eco-distress can manifest in many ways, like anguish over what the future will hold or extreme guilt over individual purchases and behaviors, said Dr. Lise Van Susteren, co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance. Workshops, volunteer opportunities and counseling specific to this anxiety have sprung up around the U.S.
For many Americans, counseling for climate distress is relatively accessible. In some communities, however, especially less wealthy ones, it may seem more like a rare privilege.
Where to begin: Social support networks and climate actions taken in groups can help. “If people aren’t ready or they run from grief, it’ll continue to haunt them,” said Sherrie Bedonie, co-founder of the Native American Counseling and Healing Collective.
The New York Times
Me: Climate change is really about big industry and the pollution they spew out in their efforts to get even richer, on the backs of the poor people whose lives they desecrate – it is not as if we people who live in homes and who drive a car, have much to do with that pollution and with cars going electric, there will be even less personal pollution issue.
How greedy for money does anyone have to be, that they take advantage over the majority who can’t afford much beyond their basic life styles?
