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#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change

The world, the universe and us

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How Climate Change Impacts Mental Health?

There are quite a number of ways how climate change is impact mental health, and we only slowly start to understand those better. We have quite good evidence that heat waves and how temperatures impact negatively on mental health. So for example, the burning of fossil fuels leads to air pollution, and there's quite some evidence now that also air pollution impacts negatively onmental health. It's only really this year that the discussion is kicking off around how climate change impacts our mental health.

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