{"id":8309,"date":"2023-04-18T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2023-04-18T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:35:56","slug":"eco-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/04\/18\/eco-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Anxiety anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Adams, a psychologist from the University of Brighton writes in\u00a0The Conversation\u00a0with tips for coping<\/a>\u00a0with eco-anxiety. \u00a0I don't actually know anyone who has it to the extent that it debilities them although I think I've come across such people on line and in print, but that not the same thing. \u00a0Youth, we're constantly told, is particularly susceptible.<\/p>\n

I came across an opportunity sample of teens the other day. \u00a0So I asked them whether they suffered. \u00a0And far from suffering, they told me that they'd not even heard of eco-anxiety. \u00a0I was a bit taken aback so I explained what it was thinking it might have a trendier name on their social media of choice. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Still not heard of it, and not something they had.<\/p>\n

I was both relieved \u2013 who'd want anyone to be eco-anxious? \u2013 and puzzled. \u00a0I know the family; the youngsters come from a caring, literate, Guardian-reading, socially-connected, culturally Marxist, home, go to a city comprehensive school, and are nose-deep in social media. \u00a0Had their parents failed them in some way perhaps? \u00a0Should they have tried to make them care so much about the future that they became anxious? \u00a0Obviously not!<\/p>\n

So I came away pleased; it is, after all, not a healthy condition and neither necessary nor helpful. \u00a0But there's plenty of time for anxiety to be acquired should they wish \u2013 or should others wish to persuade them it's a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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