climate anxiety
Warming world worry
Climate anxiety is a feeling of distress, worry, or dread about the effects of climate change on the planet's future.
It encompasses fears about environmental catastrophe, species extinction, and the adequacy of human response to the crisis.
The term emerged in the early 21st century as awareness of climate change intensified, particularly among younger generations who feel they will bear the brunt of its consequences.
Her climate anxiety spiked every time she read another report about melting ice caps.
- solastalgiaDistress from environmental change
- existential dreadTerror at meaningless being
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- panic attacksAcute fear episodes
- environmental stressPressure on natural systems
psychological resilience · generational trauma · biophilia · helplessness · biodiversity loss · mental health · environmental justice · adaptive tools · environmental cues · wildfires · extreme weather · environmental stewardship · collective action · ecotherapy · ecological restoration · sustainability · children · young people
- ZoomersTikTok, Generation Z, rizz, chronically online, screenagers
- eco-anxietyeco-grief, solastalgia, environmental stress, anticipatory grief
- Climate Changeglobal warming, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, CO2, carbon emissions
- generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
- nature therapyecotherapy, forest bathing, nature therapy, outdoor therapy, wilderness therapy
climate anxietyclimate denial
Rejecting scientific consensus on warming
climate denialism · climate skepticism · willful ignorance · blissful ignorance
anxiety, climate, climates, climatic, anticlimactic, microclimate, climatology, microclimates, climatically