eco-anxiety
Environmental future fear
Eco-anxiety is distress or dread about environmental degradation and climate change.
The term emerged in the early 21st century as awareness of ecological crisis became widespread, particularly among younger generations: Her eco-anxiety spiked every time she read climate reports.
The feeling ranges from background unease to paralyzing worry about the planet's future.
Defeat by excess
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- fearEmotional response to threat
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
helplessness · hopelessness · grief · despair · panic · unease · tension · nervousness
Complete vanishing of a species
Pleading for a cause
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- organizingSystematically putting in order
volunteering · boycott · petition · demonstration · march · rally · lobbying · coalition
Curative mental treatment
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- eco-therapyNature-based mental health treatment
- groundingConnecting to earth
- meditationFocused attention practice
journaling · community · resilience · self-care · boundaries · acceptance · processing
Systematic development of mind
- informationKnowledge about something
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
overwhelm
Defeat by excess
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- fearEmotional response to threat
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
distress · helplessness · hopelessness · grief · despair · panic · unease · tension · nervousness · restlessness
extinction
Complete vanishing of a species
advocacy
Pleading for a cause
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
organizing · volunteering · boycott · petition · demonstration · march · rally · lobbying · coalition · stewardship
therapy
Curative mental treatment
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- eco-therapyNature-based mental health treatment
- groundingConnecting to earth
meditation · journaling · community · resilience · self-care · boundaries · acceptance · processing
education
Systematic development of mind
- informationKnowledge about something
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
insight · recognition · sensitization · doom-scrolling · documentary
- environmentalismconservationism, recycling bins, campaigner, environmentalism, conservationist
- Modern AilmentsADHD, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, insomnia, depression
- ecocriticismnature writing, pastoral, nature poetry, ecofeminism, eco-feminism
- eco-anxietyclimate grief, climate fear, eco-grief, climate despair, climate doom
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
- Climate Changeglobal warming, greenhouse gases, climate change, carbon dioxide, CO2
eco-anxietyclimate denial
Rejecting scientific consensus on warming
climate denialism · climate skepticism · willful ignorance · blissful ignorance
eco-anxietyclimate denialism
Rejecting established atmospheric science
climate skepticism · willful blindness · cognitive dissonance
economy, anxiety, anxious, economic, economical, economics, ecology, economist, ecological