Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.
Group therapy helps scientists cope with challenging ‘climate emotions’
We know collective and individual climate action can alleviate negative climate emotions.
It’s very easy to fall into this vortex, right? Of thinking about climate change as a problem and not just climate change, but global environmental change, ecological loss.
The nature of academia means climate emotions overlap with “Intersectionality” to worsen their experience.
Our findings support the value of group therapy as a cathartic outlet for climate emotions among environmental scientists.
As a result, climate anxiety is likely to become more prolific, perhaps most so in climate scientists.
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Group therapy helps scientists cope with challenging ‘climate emotions’
We know collective and individual climate action can alleviate negative climate emotions.
It’s very easy to fall into this vortex, right? Of thinking about climate change as a problem and not just climate change, but global environmental change, ecological loss.
The nature of academia means climate emotions overlap with “Intersectionality” to worsen their experience.
Our findings support the value of group therapy as a cathartic outlet for climate emotions among environmental scientists.
As a result, climate anxiety is likely to become more prolific, perhaps most so in climate scientists.