A post on the Pyschology Today website explores the mental health impacts of climate crisis messaging. It's written by the geographer Ilan Kelman who will be familiar to many from his book "Disaster by Choice'.
One of the proposed solutions to climate anxiety is described as:
Personalising messages engages people. Negative climate change impacts and actions to redress them need to be relevant to people, particularly their daily lives, so that people gain directly from acting and see those gains. The authors emphasise this point as reducing “perceived psychological distance” between the message and the recipient.
Comments