Touch grass is a meme but if youre depressed or anxious or unwell.
Eat right
Do exercise
Get vitamin d
Be outside as much as possible – not doomscrolling or listening to music, listen to birdsong.
And its impossible to feel worse.
Edit
Note im not saying its a cure or replacement for going to a doctor. Most doctors would advise these things as well.
I am not sure how much of an issue this is but if this is widespread we need to find ways to address it and get people to be less anxious.
Yes, climate change is probably the most pressing and urgent issue we’ll face in our lives. Yes, it’s only going to get worse. Yes, we should have started to slow and halt this trend decades ago.
In some ways it can seem only rational with anxiety develops from that but I don’t that’s the natural human response. We’re actually pretty good at not developing anxiety or fear from wider world issues, we would all shut down if we did in a world that’s been under threat of nuclear war, mass famines, mass death and the constant drumbeat of abject horrific misery that is going on somewhere at any given time in history.
It may just be that people are now exposed to these things more and more. You turn on the news, read the papers, watch YouTube, read Twitter, read Reddit and so on then it’s a 24/7 exposure to a problem that really there isn’t much you can do in isolation then maybe it’s overwhelming.
You’ve got young people now growing up into a future where they have none of the financial stability that previous generations enjoyed while watching the world that they and their kids are going to inherit start to suffer irreparable damage due to a global issue that nobody is putting nearly enough effort into actually dealing with.
Well, since we clearly have no desire to tackle climate change, we should at least prepare young people to deal with the consequences.
No young person cares about climate anxiety, we care about our financial future – A young person
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OK so.
The UK produces <1% of the world’s pollution. If we all went back to prehistoric living, no electricity, no cars, eating nothing but grain etc, the net result on the planet would be approximately… fuck all.
Young people should be concentrating on their careers not ‘getting anxious’ about something they have zero control over.
In fact the more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that young people are being brainwashed by massively exaggerated accounts of ‘if you don’t recycle your bottles, the world will end tomorrow’ nonsense, and I guess the younger ones are naive enough to believe it.
Getting onto careers, anecdotally, at least, the kids starting at our place are the most entitled, spoiled, lazy gits I have ever known, with APPALLING office manners. There isn’t a conspiracy against them etc. They just don’t want to put their heads down and earn anything properly.
Now please furnish me with your down votes. Much obliged.
yup aye that’s a sweeping generalisation and fulla clatty pish
Sensationalist, click bait headline. This applies to people of all ages, people of all ages experience climate anxiety and also people of all ages especially in Glasgow couldn’t give a fuckin toss about protecting the environment.
throwing hazardous / toxic plastic waste into ponds, marshes, wetlands. Decimating biodiversity hot spots etc
Experiencing, appreciating and respecting nature for our mental health is for everyone not just one demographic, it transcends demographics so again this article is honkin and out of depth.
Also nature overall isn’t just for human gratification, it’s for the benefit of wildlife, plants and fungi to thrive in. It’s their planet as well not just humanity
> being in nature helps well-being
We’ve built a whole culture around putting sticking plasters over everything from environmental destruction to a mental health crisis.
Adding those six words at the end of that headline is one of the most egregious examples I’ve seen in a while.
Also not sure how you’re supposed to enjoy nature if it’s constantly being destroyed.
I mean I get it, they haven’t lived through the previous four or five climate apocalypses that failed to materialise.
Living near the sea and having your house still eerily dry after doom-mongering headlines claimed it would be underwater by ~~1999~~ ~~2010~~ ~~2015~~ ~~2020~~ 2030 will disabuse you of this nonsense pretty quickly.
So does having pretty architecture by this i am talking about building build pre ww1. Look at Birmingham’s central Library for an example. Pre war it was gorgeous.
Nature does help wellbeing. Unfortunately, all of it is at risk. So yeah, anxiety. Even the safest havens are under thread.
‘Climate anxiety’ will indeed soar when people are bombarded with propaganda every day of their lives. Who’d have guessed that telling kids they’ll have to ‘Eat Ze Bugs™’ would make them feel like shit?
Being in nature is all very well, but when said nature is constantly bombarded by traffic noise it’s hard to enjoy it. 70% of the country is exposed to elevated levels of noise pollution from roads alone.
Not sure I would class my self as a young person anymore (I’m 27) however the future certainly terrifies me and the state of the planet is one of the reasons I will not have children.
What makes it worse is I genuinly have no hope as we have a government and by extension a country full of a lot climate change deniers.
In all fairness they may just be a very vocal group but still scary.
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Touch grass is a meme but if youre depressed or anxious or unwell.
Eat right
Do exercise
Get vitamin d
Be outside as much as possible – not doomscrolling or listening to music, listen to birdsong.
And its impossible to feel worse.
Edit
Note im not saying its a cure or replacement for going to a doctor. Most doctors would advise these things as well.
I am not sure how much of an issue this is but if this is widespread we need to find ways to address it and get people to be less anxious.
Yes, climate change is probably the most pressing and urgent issue we’ll face in our lives. Yes, it’s only going to get worse. Yes, we should have started to slow and halt this trend decades ago.
In some ways it can seem only rational with anxiety develops from that but I don’t that’s the natural human response. We’re actually pretty good at not developing anxiety or fear from wider world issues, we would all shut down if we did in a world that’s been under threat of nuclear war, mass famines, mass death and the constant drumbeat of abject horrific misery that is going on somewhere at any given time in history.
It may just be that people are now exposed to these things more and more. You turn on the news, read the papers, watch YouTube, read Twitter, read Reddit and so on then it’s a 24/7 exposure to a problem that really there isn’t much you can do in isolation then maybe it’s overwhelming.
You’ve got young people now growing up into a future where they have none of the financial stability that previous generations enjoyed while watching the world that they and their kids are going to inherit start to suffer irreparable damage due to a global issue that nobody is putting nearly enough effort into actually dealing with.
Well, since we clearly have no desire to tackle climate change, we should at least prepare young people to deal with the consequences.
No young person cares about climate anxiety, we care about our financial future – A young person
[deleted]
OK so.
The UK produces <1% of the world’s pollution. If we all went back to prehistoric living, no electricity, no cars, eating nothing but grain etc, the net result on the planet would be approximately… fuck all.
Young people should be concentrating on their careers not ‘getting anxious’ about something they have zero control over.
In fact the more I think about it, the more it becomes clear that young people are being brainwashed by massively exaggerated accounts of ‘if you don’t recycle your bottles, the world will end tomorrow’ nonsense, and I guess the younger ones are naive enough to believe it.
Getting onto careers, anecdotally, at least, the kids starting at our place are the most entitled, spoiled, lazy gits I have ever known, with APPALLING office manners. There isn’t a conspiracy against them etc. They just don’t want to put their heads down and earn anything properly.
Now please furnish me with your down votes. Much obliged.
yup aye that’s a sweeping generalisation and fulla clatty pish
Sensationalist, click bait headline. This applies to people of all ages, people of all ages experience climate anxiety and also people of all ages especially in Glasgow couldn’t give a fuckin toss about protecting the environment.
throwing hazardous / toxic plastic waste into ponds, marshes, wetlands. Decimating biodiversity hot spots etc
Experiencing, appreciating and respecting nature for our mental health is for everyone not just one demographic, it transcends demographics so again this article is honkin and out of depth.
Also nature overall isn’t just for human gratification, it’s for the benefit of wildlife, plants and fungi to thrive in. It’s their planet as well not just humanity
> being in nature helps well-being
We’ve built a whole culture around putting sticking plasters over everything from environmental destruction to a mental health crisis.
Adding those six words at the end of that headline is one of the most egregious examples I’ve seen in a while.
Also not sure how you’re supposed to enjoy nature if it’s constantly being destroyed.
I mean I get it, they haven’t lived through the previous four or five climate apocalypses that failed to materialise.
Living near the sea and having your house still eerily dry after doom-mongering headlines claimed it would be underwater by ~~1999~~ ~~2010~~ ~~2015~~ ~~2020~~ 2030 will disabuse you of this nonsense pretty quickly.
So does having pretty architecture by this i am talking about building build pre ww1. Look at Birmingham’s central Library for an example. Pre war it was gorgeous.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/gallery/birmingham-central-library-through-years-4731847
Nature does help wellbeing. Unfortunately, all of it is at risk. So yeah, anxiety. Even the safest havens are under thread.
‘Climate anxiety’ will indeed soar when people are bombarded with propaganda every day of their lives. Who’d have guessed that telling kids they’ll have to ‘Eat Ze Bugs™’ would make them feel like shit?
Being in nature is all very well, but when said nature is constantly bombarded by traffic noise it’s hard to enjoy it. 70% of the country is exposed to elevated levels of noise pollution from roads alone.
Not sure I would class my self as a young person anymore (I’m 27) however the future certainly terrifies me and the state of the planet is one of the reasons I will not have children.
What makes it worse is I genuinly have no hope as we have a government and by extension a country full of a lot climate change deniers.
In all fairness they may just be a very vocal group but still scary.