climate fear
Warming world worry
Climate fear is anxiety or dread about the effects of climate change—rising temperatures, extreme weather, ecological collapse.
The term often appears in discussions of young people's mental health: Climate fear is driving some millennials to reconsider having children.
Sometimes used dismissively to suggest the concern is overblown or hysterical.
- eco-anxietyDistress over environmental degradation
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- warmingIncreasing in temperature
- extreme weatherUnusual, dangerous atmospheric events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
extinction · panic · apocalypse · mass extinction · meltdown · catastrophe · flooding · wildfires · drought · collapse · emergency · code red · crisis · grief · despair · fight or flight · tipping point · point of no return
- eco-anxietyeco-anxiety, eco-grief, solastalgia, environmental stress, anticipatory grief
- Weather Phobiasbrontophobia, storm anxiety
climate fearclimate denial
Rejecting scientific consensus on warming
climate fearclimate resilience
Ability to withstand environmental shifts
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