climate anxiety

English

Noun

climate anxiety (uncountable)

  1. Anxiety about climate breakdown.
    Coordinate term: ecoanxiety
    • 2021 November 4, Peter Kalmus, “Climate depression is real. And it is spreading fast among our youth”, in The Guardian‎:
      Therapy can help people struggling with climate anxiety and depression; but since climate emotions are driven by real, intensifying, physical processes on Earth, therapy only treats the symptom.
    • 2022 February 6, Ellen Barry, “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Alina Black, a mother of two in Portland, Ore., sought a therapist who specialized in climate anxiety to address her mounting panics. “I feel like I have developed a phobia to my way of life,” she said.
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