climate anxiety
English
Noun
climate anxiety (uncountable)
- 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 0362-4331:
- 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.