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Eco-anxiety: getting hot under the collar about climate change

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Power of Anger

Young people tend to be quite forthright in what they believe and what they say. But is that translating into a clinical problem for these people? Or are they just angry about it? There's a wonderful circularity. We say a little bit of climate anxiety is a good thing. It can help motivate people towards it. In other circumstances, it can trigger this kind of ecoparalysis. And that's oftentimes when people might come through the doors of therapy office saying, I'm experiencing debilitating anxiety.

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