Climate anxiety is a real thing and it’s important to know you are not alone. Below is a list of articles to help you feel supported and provide insight about what you may be feeling. And hopefully after all the action you just committed to take, you will feel empowered and in control to do good.
Op-Eds and Articles
- Moving from climate doomerism to optimism through humor – Grist
- LA Fire Victims Have Become ‘Dysregulated,’ Making it Hard to Focus and Make Decisions – Inside Climate News
- Group Therapy Sessions Proliferate for People Afflicted with ‘Eco-Distress’ – Inside Climate News
- Helping Kids Deal with Climate Anxiety – National Geographic
- A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety – Wired
- How to Beat Anxiety About Climate Change and Eco Awareness – BBC
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying a Deal with Climate Change – Grist
- Overwhelming and Terrifying Impact of Climate Crisis on Mental Health – The Guardian
- Climate Anxiety is Real, but There is Something You Can Do About It – CNN
- How Parents Can Tame the Stress of Climate Crises – New York Times
- Climate Footprint Quiz – New York Times
- Therapy for the End of the World – The Walrus
- Between Anger and Sadness: How the Climate Crisis has Become a Mental Health Crisis – AZ Central
- A Climate Change Guide for Kids – NY Times
- How Helping Save the Oceans Cured One Woman’s Climate Grief – Canada’s National Observer
- Replacing Environmental Despair with Hope and Action – Environmental Health News
- Op-Ed: Is Climate Anxiety Bad for the Planet? – Los Angeles Times
- 4 Tips to Help You Cope with Climate Anxiety – Vox
Books
- The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series) – by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
- Climate Crisis Chronicles – by Ethan Sacks, Dalibor Talajic, and Leigh Loughridge
- No One is Too Small to Make a Difference – by Greta Thunberg
- Why Women Will Save the Planet – Liz Hutchins
- A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety – Sarah Jacquette Ray
Television
- Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change— YouTube
- Down to Earth with Zac Efron— Netflix
Podcasts