Abstract

Mental health and climate change: tackling invisible injustice

Highlights

  • The degree of distress a person feels about climate change is often related to how directly their environ­ ment is altered or threatened.[1]

  • In the last 3 years there has been an increase in media interest around ecoanxiety represents one such example, where a mostly reasonable response to this insidious humanitarian disaster is characterised as a new mental illness

  • That global society and health-care systems are not all equipped to deal with mental health issues related to climate change such as eco-anxiety and second, that countries are not responsible for the primary cause of climate change

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Summary

Environmental numbness

Behavioural momentum Habitual behaviours are extremely resistant to permanent change and changing them often takes a long time. These values are in competition with each other and the pro-environmental ones do not always win

Judgemental discounting
Social comparison

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