A Practical Guide To Calming Your Climate Anxiety
A Practical Guide To Calming Your Climate Anxiety For many of us, anxiety and depression stemming from the climate crisis have become nearly ubiquitous with the plight of modern life. We deliver quippy one-liners about the world being on fire, share memes about how “cooked” we are amid these perilous “end times,” and perhaps most disturbingly, feel completely incapable of doing anything about it. But while this prevailing theme is unsettling, it also echoes a silver lining: We aren’t alone in these feelings. “For us, mental health isn’t just about individuals,” Jhonatan Yuditya Pratama, an Indigenous ambassador from Borneo said last year at a conference for Connecting Climate Minds, a global research project that seeks to understand the links between climate change and mental health. “It’s about the collective well-being of our communities and the land itself,” Pratama added. “When nature suffers, so do we.” Science backs up these long-held beliefs. The threat of climate change isn’t the o…
