climate doom
Planetary collapse anxiety
Climate doom is the belief that catastrophic climate change is inevitable and mitigation efforts are futile.
The term captures a fatalistic outlook that emerged as climate projections grew more alarming: I've fallen into climate doom lately—what's the point of recycling when corporations keep polluting?
Climate doomism can lead to despair and disengagement, which climate scientists often argue is as counterproductive as denial.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- mass extinctionLarge-scale species elimination
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- collapseSudden structural failure
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
crisis · warming · meltdown · tipping point · point of no return · despair · anxiety · flood · sea level rise · drought · wildfire · scorched earth · rising · tipping · point · carbon · emissions · irreversible
- fearmongeringscaremongering, fearmongering, scare tactics, fear tactics, alarmism
- eco-anxietyeco-anxiety, eco-grief, solastalgia, environmental stress, anticipatory grief
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