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Psychologist says he fears for Greta Thunberg’s mental wellbeing
Metro News
"Swedish schoolgirl Greta inspired millions of people across 150 countries to take to the streets to demand action on climate change with her Global Strike 4 Climate last week"
Facing Your Emotions Around Climate Change
Omega Center for Sustainable Living
"Dr. Renee Lertzman has spent her career as a psychologist and author designing tools and strategies suited for the uniquely challenging nature of environmental work."
'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life
By Mike Pearl; illustrated by Annie Zhao (Vice)
"It's super painful to be a human being right now at this point in history."
It’s the End of the World as They Know It
By David Corn (Mother Jones)
"The distinct burden of being a climate scientist"
Why does environmentalism have a dark side?
By Eve Andrews (grist)
"I wish I could say environmentalism were as simple as saving trees and picking up trash while jogging..."
A vision of 2040: everything we need for a sustainable world already exists
By Damon Gameau (The Guardian)
"There are real obstacles to environmental progress, but we must focus on what we are for, not just what we are against"
Do therapists have a duty to confront climate change denial?
By Olivia Goldhill (Quartz)
Social scientist Renee Lertzman, who works on the psychology of environmental communications, believes that people are suffering from “environmental melancholia."
Young Minnesotans with 'climate grief' are feeling anxiety – and taking action
By Kevyn Burger (Star Tribune illustration)
"It's on that emotional continuum, the feeling that the world is heading into a very uncertain, chaotic place and the impact is potentially devastating," she said. "It's a painful place to be."
Is it okay to enjoy warm weather caused by climate change?
By Annabelle Timsit (Quartz)
This time last year, the United Kingdom was in the grip of a wave of freezing wind from Siberia called the “Beast from the East.”
The Difficulty of Imagining Climate Change Isn’t Just in Your Head
By Alex Ronan (The Cut)
As Lertzman and others argue, climate change comes up against a human mind hell-bent on denial. “We are really good at denying and avoiding input that arouses any kind of cognitive dissonance, guilt, shame, confusion, fear,” she said. “That’s climate change in a nutshell.”
How To Hack Our Psychology To Take More Eco-Friendly Actions
by By Emma Loewe (mbgplanet)
Mention of environmental threats can send us on an emotional roller coaster like no other. These days, hearing the latest news on trash-clogged oceans, decaying coral reefs, and warming temperatures can be scary, sad, and overwhelming all at once.
The Other Kind of Climate Denialism
By Rachel Riederer (The New Yorker)
“The Uninhabitable Earth,” David Wallace-Wells’s new book about how climate change will affect human life, begins, “It is worse, much worse, than you think.”
