''Climate anxiety,' like real anxiety, can be fixed with less social media, exercise, and being realistic about actual threats. The climate can change, but let’s be reasonable in our concerns.' -MattLamb22
student newspaper recently profiled Elise Turesson, who “struggles with climate anxiety” because she feels “like she can’t do enough to curb the planet’s deteriorating conditions.”
“It's upsetting to see people walk around and litter and just do things that are not helping and just hurting a lot for the environment, especially when you care so much,” Turesson told theCalling fears about the future of the planet “anxiety” is actually an appropriate description since anxiety is “a future-oriented, long-acting response broadly focused on a diffuse threat, whereas fear is an appropriate, present-oriented, and short-lived response to a clearly identifiable and specific...
This is not to belittle someone who has had anxiety but rather to point out that the fears about the climate are not worth worrying about. For example, consider the claim that “hurricanes [are] gaining strength,” repeated in the University of Florida article. This is a popular that hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger. But in reality, the data used to make these claims are not perfect.
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