Exploring together the emotional impact of the climate and nature crisis

Many people are terrified by the prospect of imminent social collapse because of the climate and nature crisis. The effects of the crisis are already here and being felt in Britain with heatwaves and floods, while many people in poorer countries are being forced to leave their lands and homes. Yet governments seem incapable of responding adequately. The result can be sadness, despair, desperation, and doomism—a sense that we are doomed and nothing can be done. Those of us concerned about the climate and nature crisis campaign, demonstrate, write to prime ministers, and try to make changes in our own institutions and lives. We use evidence, logic, words, and data, but we haven’t paid enough attention to the emotional side of the crisis. Emotion can be a spur to action but it can also paralyse. In a recent experiment the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and the Point of…
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