How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
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How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
to clear room in our hearts for this unwelcome burden.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
At some think tank somewhere, guys with pocket protectors and knotted brows are asking their computer models questions like: “If global carbon emissions peak by 2030 and sea-level rise is 1.6 meters by 2050, how many people along the Eastern Seaboard are likely to drown in storm surges, and what will the effect be on national GDP to relocate the re
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The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Joanna Macy suggests that people’s responses to concerns about global catastrophes are to ‘go silent, go numb’ rather than protest or retaliate; this ‘numbing of the psyche’ creates an impoverished emotional and sensory life. Energy expended suppressing despair is ‘diverted from more creative uses, depleting resilience and imagination.’