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Changes in climate can cause decreasing yields for some crops and regions, resulting in higher food prices, food insecurity, and undernutrition. Climate change can also reduce water security. These factors together can lead to increasing poverty, human migration, violent conflict, and mental health issues. [7][8][3]
Climate change can affect wellbeing and mental health also through indirect consequences, such as "loss of land, flight and migration, exposure to violence, change of social, ecological, economic or cultural environment". [17] Indirect effects on mental health can also occur via impacts on physical health.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) is an organisation, whose members are health professionals and institutes from around the world, with the purpose of tackling climate change to protect and promote public health. It was formed in 2011 in Durban and by 2015 had admitted over 1,700 health organisations and 8,200 hospitals and health ...
Brain Pollution. Climate change can impact air quality, which may affect mental health, too. Sandstorms, windblown dust from droughts, and wildfire smoke add to the unhealthy soup of pollutants we ...
fatalistic thinking. existential dread. guilt or shame related to your own carbon footprint. post-traumatic stress after experiencing effects of climate change. feelings of depression, anxiety, or ...
“For the anxiety that’s associated with climate change, the best thing people can do is actually get involved in climate (advocacy) groups and start working for changes to the climate crisis.”
Exposure to worsening flooding from climate change increased the risk of depression by 31 percent, anxiety by 69 percent, and both conditions by 87 percent. This finding suggests coastal ...
Updated March 20, 2023 at 5:49 PM. The chance to secure a livable future for everyone on Earth is slipping away. That was the dire message from a United Nations report released Monday, the ...