Are our brains even wired to grapple with an existential crisis like climate change?
. None of that is new. But the swelling tide of anxiety over it is driving some people to reconsider their entire lives.Andrew Bryant, a clinical therapist in Seattle, has built a practice around this burgeoning fear. He started a website,, in 2016 to help bridge the gap between mental health and climate change. He says the concern only worsened as global warming made more headlines and extreme weather events started sweeping the globe.
Then there’s the deep, existential nature of the problem itself. Ecological grief is both so vast and so new that research has yet to catch up to it, Bryant said. But some people are already feeling overcome by hopelessness and fear. Violeta Torres, also 17, said her little sister has become concerned to the point of compulsion: “She watches a lot of videos about climate change on YouTube, then she goes through the house turning off all the light switches and recycling things. She’s 13.”in 1990, according to a Nexis search. It showed up once or twice a year until 2018, when it appeared 31 times. In 2019, the term appeared 863 times — a nearly 2,700% increase.
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