Eleventh Hour: Managing our climate change fears
In #EleventhHour this week, Visayas Coordinator Aimee Oliveros shared some tips from Climate Reality Leaders in Luzon on coping with eco-anxiety.
February 25, 2023
In #EleventhHour this week, Visayas Coordinator Aimee Oliveros shared some tips from Climate Reality Leaders in Luzon on coping with eco-anxiety.
The arts is critical in creating spaces to process the anxiety, grief, and rage brought on by the climate crisis. Climate Reality Philippines highlighted this during the Arts for Climate event on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Read more about it our column Eleventh Hour this week.
Eight out of ten children and young people across the world are worried that climate change is threatening people and the planet.
Forty-five percent globally reported that their feelings towards the prevailing climate crisis are having negative impacts on daily functioning, which include eating, concentrating, work, school, sleeping, spending time in nature, playing, having fun, and dealing with relationships.
In the Philippines, this number went up to a worrying 75 percent, with the report recognizing that young people in the Global South are experiencing more severe climate anxiety—which is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as “a chronic fear of environmental doom.”
