Why You're So Anxious (About Climate Change)
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at how you can fight climate anxiety. Specifically, I look at the root causes of eco-anxiety and climate anxiety, why climate anxiety might only become more prevalent, and then offer up some ideas on how to cope and move through eco and climate anxiety.
Climate anxiety resources you might find helpful :
1. If you or someone you know is thinking about harming themselves, please reach out for help. You can reach the US National Suicide hotline 24/7 at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or visit this link for a list of international suicide hotlines: www.suicidestop.com/call_a_ho...
2. Climate Cafes: climatechangecafe.org/
3. Good Grief Network: www.goodgriefnetwork.org/
4. Some US and International Climate Justice Organizations you could join: climatejusticealliance.org/me...
5. Gen Dread Newsletter: gendread.substack.com/
6. For more exhaustive resources: www.climateandmind.org
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - What is Climate Anxiety
5:02 - Why Are We Climate Anxious?
9:00 - Is This Really An Individual Problem?
12:29 - Internal Activism
16:51 - External Activism
19:23 - Living With Climate Anxiety
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I see always the same problems with your videos friend. Although they are well made and the story they tell is important, you seem to be missing the one crucial part - overshoot of our species. Stop ignoring it!
I'm anxious every day due feeling all the weight of this having been placed on my shoulders from older generation's greed and carelessness. I've just started volunteering this year on climate orgs and it has helped me not feel so powerless.
@@magiccloud3074 I have seen all of the videos and overshoot is always ignored. There is a fundamental difference between unsustainable growth and overshoot. We are already in overshoot. At a factor of about 40. Limiting growth will not stop this problem - it is already here. There is too many humans on this planet right now and the consequences are very visible. Whenever such a thing happens in nature, nature has its ways to stop it. Either through disease or more likely through war. It is the nature of our species and everybody seems to ignore it. Including OCC. Not only are there limits to growth, we have already surpassed them a long time ago. Some day in the 70s or 80s. The people saying that there is not to many humans, just poor distribution, have no idea what they are actually talking about. We are in the midst of a mass extinction event because of us. We alone eat 50% of this worlds calorie production. 1 species getting 50%, leaving the other 50 for all the other species (millions of them!). And we still think there can be more of us? Its a pipe dream that nobody wants to address.
There has been no rapid heating, no immense increase in sea level rise. No increase in droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or tornadoes. In 2019 more children died from complications from obesity, than starvation. In 2019 the world produced 25% more food than it needed, and agriculture still wasn't using its fullest potential. We are not in a mass extinction event. There is no such thing as a 97% consensuses that any warming has been caused by humans. We have been hoodwinked, scammed, lied to...... there is no "Climate Crisis" CO2 is good.
"How are you feeling about the climate crisis?" I feel the real danger is that too many people will listen to this tripe and give up our rights and freedoms for security against something that science says could never happen.
I went back to school to get my third degree because of this ( as an architect I felt I needed to put sustainable design in practice )
Awesome!!
This seems like the most productive way to channel climate anxiety. If 1 billion people decide they’re going to do whatever they can, maybe the future will be better than we think
In Europe the Fridays for Future movement became multiple "for Future" groups and formed "together for Future". One of the groups is architects for Future and they have members up to university professors.
Ah, fellow _C a s s a n d r a_ effect sufferers!
@@kaleoscreations8069 it’s certainly better than people vandalising paintings to protest climate change 😅
@@cptnKirk I should look into this ! 🙂
The calmest I've felt, the most alive I have ever felt, was when a protest I was at was attacked by police. Humans evolved to cope with far more extreme short-term fear than whatever we might feel in a non-lethal police riot, and we are resilient to it. We are not good at living in constant, intangible dread. By physically confronting the ecocidal state, or by taking direct action against environmental destruction, we transform an all-pervading, ever present threat into a specific, tangible, immediate problem to be tackled one day and then recovered from the next. The only danger of this more varied existence is trauma. It is important to process traumatic events together, by gathering after the event and talking about it, just as we experienced it. (Which again mirrors how ancient humans lived.)
ACAB
That only hurts your cause, you just look like fools.
What utter guff. You feel calm rioting because you feel like you have a cause and someone to fight, which distracts you from your personal feelings of inadequacy. Never mind that fighting the police will never save a single flower, let alone the planet, is irrelevant to you, because it made you feel useful, even though that was a complete delusion.
If you want to be useful, volunteer in forest fire control exercises, support sustainable farming practices which improve the soil, invest in green technology.
Picking fights solves literally nothing, it's just you venting teenage angst.
Were you foolish enough to protest global warming while the Earth is historically cold?
@@ricktd6891 The earth is not historically cool, it's getting warmer on average.
I’ve felt suffocated by climate anxiety since my preteens. It’s not productive, just makes me miserable and that hardly helps the environment so I’ve strived to move away from those thought patterns. So excited to watch this!
PERFECT Part-2 for this here: "Our Popcorn Dystopia" by 'Some More News'. Climate-Change, Hope, Gloom, its all discussed in a way you havent heard before. I really wanna hear as many people's opinions on this as possible, so excuse mee: i will spam this comment a lot.
Ah, fellow _C a s s a n d r a_ effect sufferers!
you have been brainwashed.
@@peterbelanger4094 brainwashed by who exactly?
my brother in christ,climat change is not gonna harm you just touch some grass
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. Change might not seem like its coming until it happens. Keep fighting the good fight.
I had really crippling climate anxiety a few years back. Have found reading about possible futures (both good and bad) really helpful to work through my own intense stresses. The likes of Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia E Butler & Ursula K Le Guin saved my brain from full meltdown. 🙃
YESSS!!! I love all of those authors/the worlds they create!! Just finished New York 2140 and would highly recommend to everyone
@@OurChangingClimate hehe same. fun book!
Appreciate you sharing and posting the authors of these materials. Peace!
I've been working through climate anxiety, and also collapse anxiety, since about 2006. For most of the past 16 years I've rationalized it by working towards a permaculture lifestyle... The way i see it, the lifestyle that will contribute less to climate collapse is also the lifestyle that makes us more resilient. However in recent years as it gets worse, i realize how totally unprepared i still am emotionally. Deep adaptation is also very helpful 😊
I never got into the emotional side of climate change. I just thought, I'll do my bit to planting trees, reducing my impact as much as possible, and preparing for the future in my own way.
Early on in my own project, I found that certain commonly-attainable plants weren't doing as well as expected, and realised that if our climate was due to change quite radically, then I needed to prepare for all eventualities and had to concentrate on adding as much diversity as would survive in my locality.
For instance, I have over 60 types of fruit (including red, yellow, black, purple and salmon coloured raspberries - they all have slightly different preferences in growing conditions, and one will always outdo the other according to what weather hits them at the right time).
Plum trees can get washed out by a late frost, so I have damsons to compensate (and I'm keeping an eye out for a Shepherd's Bullace!)
Loganberries hate a wet year, but tayberries don't mind so much, while blackberries need rain early on and sunshine as they darken up.
I've had my first harvest of Amelanchier lamarkii this year (surprisingly nice and sweet, a good alternative to cherries which get a bit battered in late gales. Amelanchiers are smaller and hang onto the branches better; and my birds ignore them entirely.
Also, this year, grew my first peach from a tree grown from a peach stone which I found lost and alone, germinating in a puddle. Tasted beautiful!
I went back to school last year at age 55 to pursue an MS in Environmental Studies so I could better help our planet & communities address climate in some meaningful manner. For me, it wasn’t until I accepted total loss of everything, that I started to feel more space around possibilities. Environmental Science has become a very popular major & I interact with people half my age who are concerned about our planet and systems. They help me feel some hope: as long as young people join in the fight, I have hope. Baby boomers won’t save the planet. Democracy won’t save the planet…nor will authoritarianism. Until humans place nature, animals and our oceans on the same essential level, ecocide will continue. Get involved, however you can. Get into good trouble ✌🏽
You're awesome! I wish there were more like you that felt the same way. Unfortunately the prevailing notion of the older generation seems to be either denial of climate change and issues with capitalism or apathy that they will be gone once it gets really bad.
Thank you for covering this topic. Climate anxiety has been haunting me for years but the most devastating aspect is the feeling of loneliness that I get when I realize how many people don`t seem to be affected at all.
My solution is to reach out in your local community for Permaculture groups or organizations like Food Not Lawns. If there isn't anything you can do in the big picture, you can always make your own ecosystem more diverse & resilient while having the bonus of providing food and creating a sense of community. Climate change deniers can't argue with the benefits of local food forests.
Excellent. That's the sort of action more people should be taking.
Governments are already working on ways to suppress the more violent side of activism. The loud and the angry will be shoved into jails, and they will achieve nothing worthwhile as the planet continues to suffer.
But the gentle art of taking yourself towards self-sufficiency, a low impact lifestyle, and supporting wildlife at the same time - permaculture is definitely the way to go.
My own garden is a rewilding/permaculture project, and this year the harvest has been amazing (despite the 3 month drought earlier this Summer).
Variety is my prime focus. If the weather doesn't suit one plant, then it will suit another. So it doesn't matter if the Spring was too cold for the plums, or too humid for the raspberries - many dozens of other fruit plants still do well under such conditions.
Thank you for this, it’s so overwhelming trying to live your life fully while also being mindful about the climate crisis.
It’s nice to have a place where like minded people feel similar and have such lovely things to say.
Chapter 3 summary: we've all been victims of gaslighting by the fossil fuel industry and capitalism
Gaslighting fits perfectly, lol
The problem with mentioning "those with most power to do something about it " is that they are the very people that profit from the activities that cause climate change. I'm talking about the oil industry and big corporations.
Animal agriculture is even more culpable friend.
"They fear love because it creates a world they can't control."
-George Orwell ; 1984
My personal climate anxiety has been drastically reduced ever since I joined a local activist group. I’m releasing a video in a bit where I show off some of the very real results which we’ve been able to produce in the past year…but that’s actually not the reason for my anxiety reduction.
The reason is simply from being able to meet in person with people once a month who feel the same way that I do. We discuss our feelings and validate each other for them. And then once we’re done feeling horrible we pick up the pieces and talk about what actions will be done in the next month.
It’s surprisingly cathartic and I’d highly recommend it if you’re struggling with anxiety.
So y'all are feeling based rather than fact based and you feel better when other uneducated people agree with your feelings.... ok.
Go educate yourself or get a a job or a hobby. Its ridiculous. How old are you?
This is incredible advice, honestly. Thank you.
And your opposition is growing faster.
@@peterbelanger4094 actually that doesn’t seem to be true. There’s been a handful of studies which show that the majority of citizens believe climate change is real and support taking some form of action on it.
The issue is that most of the money is stacked up on the “do nothing side”.
Sounds like a cult
I suffer from depression since the start of the Ukraine war because it made me realise (more than before) that leaders are still much more concerned about their agenda or national interests than global problems like climate change and on top of that, willing to fight wars over it. I'm visiting a therapist which helps but I'm still looking for a local community where I feel understood with my anxiety.
PERFECT Part-2-like VIdeo for this here: "Our Popcorn Dystopia" by 'Some More News'. Climate-Change, Hope, Gloom, its all discussed in a way you havent heard before. I really wanna hear as many people's opinions on this as possible, so excuse mee: i will spam this comment a lot...
I hate to break it to you but the Ukraine war was a long time coming.These leaders care more about themselves and their power than you and me.It doesn't help that other regular people pay dust ti the climate situation.
Because Russia feels attacked. That's why they decided to take action. It's a problem which Russia can solve.
But for climate change, what should we do? Ask developing countries to stop using fossil fuels? That seems unfair to them. We used fossil fuels in our industrial revolution. Our economy practically runs on fossil fuel. The problem is not easy.
The carbon reduction policy doesn't solve anything. If we want to solve these problems, we need innovations and fundings actively solving these problems.
So what should we do? We should support green technologies/green companies. Allow them to flourish and disrupt the old companies.
Reducing our carbon footprint only goes so far, we need capitalism to help us too
As someone who's currently struggling to finish his first uni degree, I can't help but roll my eyes when people tell me I'm doing it for my 'future'. What future?
It's hard to imagine a future worth living for when the current reality is already so horrible - not just because of freak weather events we're experiencing here in British Columbia, but also of course because of the looming threats of nuclear war, unaffordability, constant global suffering and a general feeling that nobody with money and power is willing to change.
I'm at the point at which I've begun to laugh when boomers and other ignorant finance people tell me I should start saving money for retirement, as if I or anyone else will want to be around in 40 years. Hah.
The only thing that gets me going right now is simply enjoying the present and whatever little nuggets of joy I can eke out of it - despite everything.
I'm in the same boat as you... it's so hard for me to imagine and plan a future for myself. Like, what future? It's late October and I'm keeping my windows open the whole day, because it's too hot, I go out in just a shirt, in LATE OCTOBER... I had a serious depressive episode about it, now I just feel sad, angry and helpless..
If the power shuts off, or an EMP (which is highly possible), my elders will not be able to eat their digital money. That event alone, will reduce our population quickly.
@@chrismullin8304 It's really not about the population: The future is pretty much guaranteed to be hellishly hot and unliveable.
@ Agreed. That is why I Prep. I can’t stop the pain, but I can lessen it’s impact on my family and I.
Your last name doesn’t happen to be Cimino does it?
@@chrismullin8304 It does not, sorry!
I’m constantly surrounded by people with Climate Anxiety and doomism, yet I am fueled by our dire situation to make radical change, and in fact find purpose in life because of it. This video is great for people who are pessimistic, for like you said, it is what these polluting industries want. Fantastic job 👍
My husband's climate anxiety leveled up to climate PTSD after we lost our home in a hurricane.
@@garydorfner4576 That's not how this works, buddy.
Hurricanes have been a thing forever. Why is everything bad that happens attributed to climate change and everything good ignored.
I feel bad for you guys, but don't extrapolate links that are not there.
@@alex29443 Except those, and pretty much every other type of natural catastrophe's been happening significantly more often now, because of climate change. The statistics don't lie.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 marginally increased frequency doesn't mean someone gets to be surprised when it happens, that's silly.
Hurricanes happen. Don't get in their way.
Parking lots take up 25 to 30% of city land space go up parking garages same or more parking spots with 50% less land use. The new land available can be used for green spaces to help cool and clean up are citys and help reduce energy demands on the city do to cooler temperatures.
Commenting for engagement. This is really important for people to hear
I can say this hits me.... My partner I have decided we won't have kids with one reason being the environmental concerns and just using our funding to support our nieces and nephews.
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, I'd really like to get an apology/acknowledgement from all of the climate deniers in politics/media who have quietly changed their rhetoric around climate change and actively tried to discredit all of the scientists that were trying to raise warnings! The harm they did was massive and could have dire consequences
You're going too easy on them. They should be publicly spanked.
I feel the same way about having kids. I want to have kids, but i don't want to put any more life through what we will go through.
Just start - yes!
It's what I keep saying, from video to video to video.
My father worked as a computer programmer, and designed the data collection programs for a British climate research facility when I was in my early teens. He was disturbed by what the data was telling him and when he came home - he told me what the scientists said future was going to be like.
Word for word, those scientists haven't missed a beat.
That was over 40 years ago.
After what my dad told me, did I 'sit' around getting depressed, anxious, scared by what he'd told me, by the events unfolding around me?
No.
I made a start, that very year, and planted my first tree.
Since then, I have planted thousands more trees, many thousands more bushes, thousands of wild flowers, and probably millions of bulbs.
I've always lived a low impact life, went vegetarian that year (and vegan in later life), took up a career in gardening and conservation, and have bought my energy from green energy providers for as long as they have existed.
My bones ache, my back hurts, my joints are stiff with an unfortunate genetic problem - but I'm still planting trees for you, and for all those yet unborn.
Please, don't do all this 'angry' stuff that's going on around the world. You're wasting time building hatred among the ordinary people who are 'too scared' to face facts. Shouting will not open their ears, only make them close them. You're building a wall between them and us. Destructive and nuisance protest is not the way to reach them.
Also, sitting down with your hand glued to the road wastes your valuable time, causes cars around you to continue pumping more exhaust fumes into the atmosphere while they wait, causes the police to 'drive' their carbon-emitting vehicles to go and get you - unless some driver loses his patience and rips your hand off the floor.
And that is going to happen sooner than later.
What 'all' people need is a convenient way they can contribute to helping the climate without the preaching - which is why we need many more people to create groups.
We need groups that collect tree seeds, grow them, and plant them (especially guerrilla planting, because getting things sorted through the authorities is just too lengthy).
We need more volunteers out cleaning streets and road verges, beaches and rivers. Associated groups to sort recyclables. In some countries you can make money out of it.
I picked up half a pound of pure copper wire just the other day and was today asked to keep an eye out for scrap iron. I'll get paid for that. Meanwhile, I collect aluminium cans to recycle and my local council will get paid for that.
Other countries get paid for recycling plastic - and I would so love that to be the case in mine. I'd double my scouting area right away!
We need groups to negotiate with supermarkets and coffee shops, to take waste food off them for free, distribute the best of that food to those facing hard times.
Other food (non animal) can be made into compost - and sold to gardeners! Do it right and you can make that compost in just a couple of months!
Just look at the cost of bagged compost right now, and remember that gardening has never been more popular that it is at this moment. People 'want' cheaper compost because they are looking more to growing their own food at home.
Plenty of good channels on RUclips help you with all you need to know. All it takes is someone with a piece of concrete yard, a shovel, and a sign to advertise. Ask around for empty sacks. Everyone's got a couple in a shed somewhere.
Once you start thinking of pro-environment ideas, I guarantee you won't stop. The only thing getting in your way is you and your inaction.
So do what I did 42 years ago - and make a start.
I haven't been as paranoid about the climate crisis recently due to another RUclipsr I followed suggested to viewers to digitally contact corporations/companies/brands and request that they be more sustainable.
For example last week I couldn't find a shampoo-bar at the grocery store I exclusively buy from.. so I contacted the store if they could carry a favorite shampoo-bar brand I liked. This week because Halloween is coming up, I contacted Hersey's Chocolate company to ask them if it possible to wrap the sweets in aluminum foil over single-use plastic or use cardboard boxes.
It's something small however if everyone decided to take time to write to these brands, demand changes... they'll feel more pressure to make changes because of costumer demands and interests.
Got to do what you can but that's what makes me feel better, emailing business to hopefully create change.
I also started bringing an extra trash bag when I visit the alley to collect fly-away trash, this is my 3rd week of doing it and even my toddler likes to help out.
Great work. I used to write to supermarkets too, and one day noticed that they'd finally changed the packaging on a product I liked to an all-card type. As I'm a bit deaf and talk a little loudly, I waved the packet at my husband and said what a good idea it was that the carton was all card at last.
When I turned round to pick out another carton, I noticed a man in a suit standing nearby and looking pointedly at me, obviously having heard what I'd said. Within a month, the whole range was repackaged in card cartons.
Brilliant that you and your little one can enjoy picking up trash together. I go out with my grown up son and do the same.
Occasionally, you can find some real treasures.
This week - half a pound of stripped copper wires, a very fancy old brass cabinet handle, and a porcelain bowl (now holding an arrangement of succulents on my windowsill). Last week, 2 terracotta planters. Earlier this year: washing machine - whose stainless steel inner drum makes a great air-pruned plant container. A washing basket. I've found several buckets and use these as water catchers for the garden. £30 cash. A couple of working pens, and - over the course of the past 2 months - half a freezer full of wild mushrooms (probably worth in the region of £200).
@@debbiehenri345 That's amazing you got them to change their product packaging.
I adore that you found some useful things while cleaning up. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled, I've mostly seen used tissues though so that unfortunately has to be trashed.
I can’t even walk on the beach to escape as I see with my own eyes the vast difference in the numbers of seabirds compared with as little as 10 years ago. It’s awful. It’s like a fog that lays over my entire life. I’m no longer able to experience joy on the same level as “before” I knew what was happening.
I feel the same way. I used to love Warm and Sunny days, now the heat only reminds me of the climate crisis. I've become happier when it rains.
Right now at least, I feel like simple external eco-protest, activism and/or "vote better politicians", pushing for reforms will be insufficient or at minimum too late and millions if not billions will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change (that is not to say we should not continue do push for reforms). Notably, part of me thinks that perhaps violent economic political 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is needed in the imperial core but I also know that millions if not billions will also suffer downstream effects of the collapse of the status quo (capitalistic financial systems).
It's inevitable when people are affected by water shortages and starvation. And when the elites start ww3 to distract the peasants, it's not like we can't find their bunkers. And every bunker comes with air vents.
In overthrowing capitalism the long-term benefits outweigh the temporary suffering of recovering from a complete societal overhaul.
@@johnjohnson3681 Absolutely, but how will most people be prepared for it?
I started a cohort that meets regularly to share skills and build community and the first thing we dealt with (and continue having to deal with) is the intensity of the anxiety and hopelessness people feel.
Good for you. Movement is an excellent medicine for the mind and soul.
Sometimes I feel like Im drowning in this world. Thank you for talking about this
Thank you for this video. I am a therapist, you did an excellent job of educating on how to obtain resiliency and longevity for the struggle now and ahead. I will be sharing your video.
I definitely suffer from this and have to take breaks from social media every now and then. The main reason I get anxious is due to the inaction and denial from governments and people in my immediate circle and on social platforms.
Man made climate change isn't real.
Our current situation makes me resentful of my elders, and their actions and decisions.
Fear and rage can be crippling, but you’re absolutely right that they can and should be channeled into action. It’s reassuring to know that other people struggle with these emotions as well
...PERFECT Part-2-like VIdeo for this here: "Our Popcorn Dystopia" by 'Some More News'. Climate-Change, Hope, Gloom, its all discussed in a way you havent heard before. I really wanna hear as many people's opinions on this as possible, so excuse mee: i will spam this comment a lot.
Bring it on greenie. You fools will be crushed. How will you win a war without oil? Or the modern technology it provides? You will become primitives, living in mud.
@@nenmaster5218 taking useful action is the opposite of spam
@@VickiNikolaidis Im waiting for valid criticism. Got any or just this?
I really appreciate this because I struggle with climate depression. It's been exacerbated since Vancouver just had two unseasonably dry smoke-filled weeks. I've decided to focus on learning about climate activism and watching solution oriented media rather than pessimistic warnings. I know what's happening and why and I don't need to take in more news about how f***ed we are. But it gets to me. I worry how my daughter will manage though I've taught her to be very self reliant. I think I need to also teach her how to rely on friends. Times are rough and we need people in our lives.
My channel will help you feel less alone.
sometimes i think people feel like they need to “fix”/change their thoughts or feelings BEFORE acting, when in reality (for me at leas), the action is what changes the feeling. being in community, part of a campaign, or organizing actually make it feel more bearable. so if you’re struggling, maybe try the action first!!
9.000-45.000 aditional people (in north America) taking their lifes due to climate crisis. For someone who has lost a brother by suicide this hits so hard. I don´t wanna downplay deaths by floods, droughts, famine or other catastrophies but just having been through this process explicitely, seeing parts of the family falling appart, dealing with questions of fault, this is painfull to hear. With these big numbers it´s so easy to forgett what this really means. In this case I get a bit more understanding grasp of it...
Every time I get to a group of political action it´s like a road to an utopie. Just came back from Lützerath, a village that´s supposed to be toren down for coal underneath it and it was wonderfull.
Do you mean that those political groups wanted something impossible?
@@ecohumanism If you rerferr to the word choice "utopie", for me this does not just mean becoming carbon neutral (or negative). I think that is possible. For me this is also about a change in fundamental human nature, of living together, experiencing one self, the world and the people around in a different way. About the second thing I´m not quiet shure...
Also an other point is that I don´t like the biblical phrases "heaven" and "paradise", so the word that expresses these ideas connected with thes biblical words the most is "utopie".
If you have a better word please let me know, been looking a long tome for something better
@@J_to_the_F Yes indeed I was interested in the reason why you used this word. Thank you for answering my question.
I myself have this idea of a better society and perceiving people and their behaviours differently from what is common in our culture. I mean not validating different sorts of abuse, not trusting to those who lied, not saying "oh, they are just like everyone" and different things. My vision of the people is closer to that on the Surviving Narcissism channel.
So I also have my picture of the almost ideal world, and it seems more or less feasible. At least I can imagine how to achieve it, I don't believe myself in the utopias where every person is kind-natured and human-loving, this seems to me as a misunderstanding of people.
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Ahhhh Yolanda... what a distaster it was, whistling rain really scared me as a kid
My working life included over three decades working as an environmental professional. Acutely aware of CC, I was at first energised by the issue but gradually became weighted down and despondent.
Fortunately for me, I was able to retire and just completely removed myself from the issue - stopped reading journals, almost no news consumption, don’t even talk to people about it. Instead, I live on a sailboat full time, keep to myself, walk in the bush, and just try to live a very simple life.
For me I think we’re probably not going to ‘solve’ climate change. Our systems are too entrenched, economics too big, population seriously bloated, and most people actually don’t really care.
It may sound defeatist. But it’s been incredibly freeing. I don’t feel like I own the issue, or that I have to convince anyone. And now, if it does come up in a meaningful conversation, I can talk about everything much more calmly.
Adopt a Buddhist mindset, live simply, go analogue instead of digital everywhere you can, …. and become a low-key prepper.
I completely agree!
I don't feel anxiety as such. More like a depression. I just hate wasting what will be considered the "good times" working my pointless job.
But we will be continuing business as usual until society completely collapses...
I’m under constant anxiety over where I’m going to live in the next many years because of the lack of action of any leaders to prepare and tackle these environmental changes
This is probably weird, maybe even psychopathic, but the main thing I feel about the climate crisis is a sort of morbid curiosity / FOMO, like the feeling of waiting on a cliffhanger that you know won't be resolved. Maybe it's because climate change hasn't affected me personally yet, but I have this unshakeable feeling that I'll never find out how humanity _really_ ends up getting through this, or not, and I _really_ want to find out. Like, I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in any kind of afterlife, but wanting to know "what happens next" pretty much singlehandedly makes me hope there _is_ an afterlife. And, you know, maybe I will find out in my lifetime, if we do solve it, but that gets more and more unlikely by the day. And if we _don't_ make it (including scenarios where I personally die from the effects of climate change), will we ever bounce back somehow? Will another life form take our place, on Earth? If it remains an unresolved issue my whole life, which side will it end on? _How_ will we make it through, or how will it all end?
I think I've been reading too much sci-fi and post-apocalyptic fiction, ever since I was young. I just want to know how the story of humanity ends. I don't know if this is disturbed, or a manifestation of anxiety, or somehow hopeful -- maybe someone here in the comments can tell me, or maybe someone here has the same type of feelings.
We don't know exactly why are you even focused on a future that is obviously going to be catastrophic for humanity anyways?Maybe you should realize those little dystopian books you read are reality right now.
I'm 64 years old and I will probably either be dead or very old when it gets really bad climate wise. But I worry about my nieces and nephews who will have to deal with this. I get infuriated at our government's inaction. Republicans claim it's not even happening and Democrats offer minor band-aid solutions. But we need to act NOW before it is too late! But our politicians are too addicted to the big donations they get from the oil industry. It's hard not to feel a sense of doom.
Thanks for posting this. Until braiding sweetgrass, this was an unaddressed issue to me
Studying just enough for an environ minor hurt. Partially because the endless divide, conflict, and loneliness of the politics around it. Profs tired and apathetic, endless difficulty, then the guilt in paid work- knowing the issues.
If I did find a group working on solutions and a culture that I fit with- they are hundreds of miles away.
Haven't watched the entirety but commenting helps the alg.
This is exactly what I've been feeling the past year, with the compounding effect of economic decline and mass layoffs driving my anxiety up further. Thank you for your content
I love your videos but I need to be in a good place to watch them.
Thanks for the good work
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It is an overwhelming problem.
No words to describe,how much helpful this video is,living with the eco anxiety for nearly 4+years literally giving up on a dream life ,don't no the way out, disputes with the surroundings since not finding like-minded people's, I am gradually in the process of recovering and engaging in activism,working on climate ,still I don't feel my work is not enough ,this will add fuel to it ❤❤
I dont have climate anxiety, I have just anger and a strong will to end capitalism
using those fancy words is a way to psychologize and individualize systemic problems
That's why it's necessary to strengthen ambiental communities, invade the popular conscience and show them we need ambiental preservation, that growing your own food is healthier and cheaper. Spread the message of the benefits of sustainability, permaculture, lake preservation, garbage recycling how all of this is "cheaper", we need to stop capitalism, but by imploding it using it's own arguments against it.
We're fighting against big corporations, so we need communication tools at the same level, using marketing to show people how those corporations are killing our children's future
great stuff, more about this needs to be said and echoed across the world
I’m so glad I’m not alone with these feelings - 17 yr old
Thank you so much, I was feeling so discouraged when I found the compost bin that I put on my college in the trash with the bin and all, but I’ll still trying
For anyone looking to go inward to find peace and happiness and/or creating a deeper connection to the Earth and all beings on it, I highly suggest the Zen Buddhist tradition of Plum Village founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh. Their practices are all about bringing mindfulness into everyday life (not just sitting on a cushion) and they speak a lot about the Climate Crisis and how to handle such anxieties.
Stellar video. The perspective is NECESSARY
I'm going back to school now to get a master's in Sustainable Development for this very reason. Completely different field than what I've worked in the past 7 years, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I've been feeling this climate anxiety for years now. I live in the Philippines, and the threat of climate change is real. Imagine the feeling of not having water on your tap (as I am currently typing this comment, there has not been any water on our tap for 18 hours and I live in the capital city) because the dams that supply your water are still below ideal levels as there is a lack of rain. If you go to the countryside, power outages are commonplace and the water situation is a lot worse. When typhoons hit, they destroy all agriculture, when the summer comes, they also destroy agriculture. The prices of the food we have to buy has never been higher and more people are going hungry, losing jobs, getting sick and are resorting to crime because of it. What does our government do? attack the symptoms instead of the main cause, and focus on useless issues instead. Summers have also been hotter and nearly all year round, it has been hotter and more humid. Have you ever had the feeling of sweating while taking a shower? I do and it's not fun. I don't feel anxious towards this that much, but more of frustrated that we can't do much about it.
I know that earthquakes and volcanoes aren't part of climate change, but dealing with the fact that at any time the ground beneath you could shake and destroy everything, it sobers you up in a way that hardly anything else can. So for those out there who can still enjoy a reliable stream of water on your tap, have cheap electricity and food, not to mention not having to live with the fact that a strong typhoon or earthquake could wipe you off the map, and are still complaining about inconvenient your life is, count your blessings.
Thank you for this! Its such a huge problem that so many people are suffering through.
Your channel is integral to the conversation, as always.
Sui-ide is always an Option.
Thank you, I thought I was the only one feeling like this, glad to know I'm not alone.
We'll get through this together 🌎
I particularly liked the segment about binocular vision. Thanks for offering hope for all of us.
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I have watched all of your videos so far and I found all of them to be very informative and helpful. This one here though is, in my opinion, the most important videos you have done to date and I want to thank you for highlighting this aspect of the climate crisis! Thank you for your activism! Love from Germany
Thanks for this video, for the channel and your actions! It's such a beautiful inspiring work!
I had eco anxiety before it was hot.
No really. I was bricking myself about this as a kid in the 80s.
Since about 2001 for me, but I was raised in a doomsday cult before, so…. This is what it is
Me too. I had enviromental biology in the 80s. Just 9,10, and 11th grade. I feel like especially since 2000, mainstream has been about growing the economies more more and more consumption! Coworkers that doesnt know cc is real, because big companies have no interest in people reducing buying THINGS and flying to the other side of Earth just to see it in real life.
I stoppet reading novels at amazon after the litle "space adventure" and this year after all the talk of energy and food crisis I startet growing much more of my own food. I dont wok more than a few hours a week (cleaning) because of work related anciety and depression ( psykiatric nurse) but my garden is my sanctuary. 🌱
It doesnt wear me down like being with people does.
I love my garden. It might not seem pretty, but i have plums, apples, carrots, potatoes, onions, jerusalem artichokes, beans, salad, tomatoes and even three cucumbers and a few zucchinies. Lots to love. Not least my 2 grown daughters and my new love for 9 years and counting 💕
@@TheTroutyness See, for me the death cult is the society killing all life on the planet for imaginary numbers, not the people trying to stop it.
This is EXACTLY it. Thank you
What a well made video with an important message! Definitely worth sharing and discussing with others. As someone who's more action oriented, this offers a good reminder to allow myself time and space to experience and process the grief and anxiety as well.
YES! The balance of accepting we are doomed, while simultaneously never for one second stopping to fight for a utopia that survives.
What Utopia?That Utopia people keep imagining is far out of our reach.
@@jenevievecrouch1145 Yup, it's not static, it's adaptive. It's also something we can't get to from "here". "Here" being this dystopian AF globally suicidal mindset where short sighted biological drives are running the show. What i mean by utopian is a mindset that is longsighted, thinking about impact on the next 10,000 generations, and based on everyone living life as they choose, while simultaneously everyone working together to make the best life for everyone. Even if we never get there, those simple shift in aims will mean we live in a far better world than this.
We pray for those of you who read this, always have joy and happiness.
Your life is perfect, the universe loves you in many ways, you only need to see from various perspectives. Have a good life from now.
excellent video as always, your work is making a difference my friend.
Thank you for making this video. This echoes so many of my feelings.
Your videos are always amazing! 👏
I was finding myself having a hard time coping with climate change and then this video popped up. Thank you for sharing!!
a MUCH needed video thank you
Thank you for this video i really needed to hear it.
thank you for your beautiful thoughts ~
This was so beautifully done. Thank you!
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This video is so important and resonated so deeply. Thank you
Great to see so many erzatz professions and professionals have arisen to validate this state "uncertainty, unpredictability, uncontrollablity" a HUGe weight off my mind
Such a well done video. Excellent job. Rapidly covered SO MANY of the important points to make. I founded EcoGrief Relief, in touch with Good Grief Network. It's so easy to get disheartened and filled with despair. But you just have to be an Absurd Hero and push on! Fight the good fight! 💜💪
My climate anxiety increased dramaticly for the last 2 months. I used to think that the plastic is the main problem, so I did what I can: used reusable bags, travel cups instead of disposable ones, sorted garbage, was vegetarian etc. And as many people I thought that climate change is a something in distant future.
But about 2 months ago I came across a video about climate change and since then most of the days I've spent reading, searching, watching and trying to figure out what to do.
It's really difficult especially for people like me, I'm an immigrant, moved to Portugal just several months ago. So the financial, social situation is unstable, I don't have rights and also can't stop reading about Climate change because it's impossible to act like nothing is happening when you already know what you've known.
The main question (as I feel it): how to contribute to good changes towards Climate Change and don't forget about your own life? Because I can't spend needed amount of energy, time on volunteering and do some social initiatives while I'm struggling with my own financial and other difficulties.
As a solution I was thinking about creating an eco-friendly or climate-related business, so it would be a source of income and contribution to the Global Warming. But what business can it be? Most of them takes a lot of funding in the beginning and it still looks so small.
So..as you can see I still feel it like a closed circle.
I don't know if anyone read my comment but if you did, please give me your ideas and perspective✨
You can stop worrying. Most of this is based on exaggerations and people with extremist views.
Consider the graph we are all shown of temperatures hurtling upwards. The past is all based on proxies with very high uncertainty, poor global coverage and an average gap between values of 150 years. The actual statistics do not support a doomsday conclusion. Considering the actual data and numerous written accounts of warm and cold eras in the past the best conclusion is that we are not experiencing anything abnormal.
The actual forcing for CO2 is 3.7 w/m2. Put the actual value into the Earth temperature equation and you get 0.7C. We haven't had a doubling yet so the actual rise due to CO2 is 0.5C. The bigger numbers you are shown all depend on a vast array of feedbacks that are poorly understood. A small change in these could massively change the conclusions.
There is nothing unusual or extreme happening. This is what a warm era normal looks like. There are written reports from many centuries ago that describe cold and warm eras, we just didn't have thermometers back then to record the actual temperature.
You have probably been told that all scientists agree but I bet you have not been told what they agree on. The top category of agreement behind the 97% agree claim is half or more warming is human caused and a number is put on the result. The remaining 95% of scientists agreed on les than that.
@@old_toucs6283 you're just protecting yourself with cognitive dissonance. The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, caused by humans and will have severe consequences for all life on earth. Go pick cherries all you want, you or your descendants will face the consequences of our governments' inaction at some point.
If you have attachment to outcomes, actions can only be a temporary relief or may even be a distraction from very needed mental spiritual work.
In the video a salve which covers over and hides pain is mentioned, but action will help, so long as it doesn't hide the other work which needs to be done for your own mental health and thriving.
This is such an amazing and helpful video. Thank you
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Thank you for this video 💚
As a Puerto Rican in my mid 20's who lived through Maria I can 100% confirm that a lot of us have PTSD from Maria. I actually spoke this with my psychologist and she told me that basically the entire country has this sort of mass PTSD because of how horrible that hurricane was. I personally don't want to have kids because of how horrible things are going to get in the future and I constantly think about it but try not to worry because whatever we are all destined to die anyways but sometimes the anxiety is too much. For example when hurricane season comes up a lot of us over here get constant anxiety about a hurricane similar to Maria coming over here and destroying us. During hurricane Fiona a lot of us were very scared about the winds etc but we didn't stop to think about the rain and that caused massive floodings that were never seen even during Maria. I personally saw 2 people drown and saw how rescue workers tried to help but couldn't do anything the anxiety was awful and I just feared for everyone else because I live in a mountain and saw how horrible those floods were. This is why a lot of young people are moving away from the island and going to the main land because we know that within time this is just going to keep getting worse.
Loving your videos! Really great. Signing up for your platform. Thank you ;)
Of course i have Anxiety for the Future. Pervert's and Uncivilized Behavior isnt going away with Humanity '''''maturing''''' so the Future will always have this. I wonder which R-ce supresses which in the Year 2226. I wonder which Celebrity-Scandal will mark the first Time In-est happens on Planet Venus.
Volunteering through Workaway and WWOOF is another great way to meet like minded inspiring people and to learn practical skills and different lifestyles.
🙏thank you for this video. I feel better. ❤
I had climate change anxiety since I was 8 or 9 and I still worry as an adult.Worrying about political or economic crisis is one thing but a dying planet is just way more depressing and it's not like we don't have options to reverse it we do but it may take awhile and we may not have much time.
I'm a few steps beyond anxiety I have relentless DEPRESSION even though I've been doing my part by being vegan/vegetarian 26 years, compost food waste, grow my own food, recycle, only buy used and work from home and never fly anywhere, but if no one else is doing anything why should I try so hard to save a planet that's too late to save because of greedy people?? 😞
Sui-ide is always an Option.
This is where I find myself too. Hang in there!
Thanks for making this. I have an online friend that I believe have struggled with this and shared this video with her. Well made and holistically thought out video as usual, especially apt point at 11:43 that applies across the board.
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@@nenmaster5218 No idea what you're saying or is even trying to say here. Are you saying OCC is sensationalizing something here?
@@SourceChan No?
@@SourceChan I recommended you a video that is a part 2 to this here.
@@nenmaster5218 Gotcha, my bad.
Would love for you to be a guest on second thoughts podcast 'The Deprogram'.
super important video! thanks again
Strongly recommend the RUclips doco "Living in the Time of Dying" watched it recently and it helped me process this stuff from a different angle with less stress/depression.
Thank you for this I want this to spread
Thank you for this, and all of your great videos. Now supporting via Patreon. Re-posted via social media - Keep it up!
Like anxiety over another issue, try and resolve it the best way you can! Go into the streets and make your worries known, do what you feel is right to solve the issue (being realistic because you're only one person), and share your enthusiasm to cope and help others with the change. There are so many people which feel the same as you, do not forget the power we have as a whole, and DO NOT be complacent on the matter
I just get desensitized to the disasters I see on TV and just go on with my area of genetic engineering to design life for such a thing in the coming years after school
Thank you❤
Thanks for the video :)
I thought It was just me alone having this climate anxiety. Then somebody made a video about it. Now I can safely say I'm normal!
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I am trying to be pragmatic about the bad future, because I don't see any power which is intended to stop it from coming. I think that sometimes we just have to accept bad things to create a better plan for our actions.
14:15 I like to see this Kübler-Ross model, even though it's a bit wrong, because your trauma stays with you. You only leaving this drop on the chart with a better understanding and some experience, which should have it's own graph or something. Not all people can grow as humans after a great distress, the best thing here are stages of denial - suffering - accepting and understanding, if you have them, then you are still alive, you have connection with the world and you're learning.
I myself would love to find more like-minded people, no doubt that a lot of people feel the same, he has asome great points or observations in this video.
We've all hit this point at some point in our activism, for any social justice movement honestly. Battling against the status quo really grinds you down emotionally.
This has raised my unusually high anxiety to "depressive highs" 😔
Mended Light should do a video on this concept