Are You Taking Action to Save the Planet?

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Caroline Hickman says we need to channel what we might be feeling into something positive. She suggests finding community of belonging and listening to other people's feelings. Find a group, any group, whether it's an activist group like extinction rebellion or one of the other groups taking action. You can find links to some of the groups that she mentioned on the web page at the guardian dot com.

The impacts of the climate crisis are undeniably here. Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding are causing devastation around the world. And yet, we still aren’t seeing the drastic action that’s required to avert climate disaster. As things get worse, it’s easy to give up hope – but ‘climate doomism’ is just as dangerous as climate denial. Anand Jagatia speaks to psychotherapist Caroline Hickman about her research on climate anxiety, and how we can turn feelings of doom into positive action. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod