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How ‘mental shutdown’ around climate anxiety prevents us from acting – and how to stop it

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    November 2, 2021

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(Source: https://metro.co.uk/ ) For most of us, climate change and concerns about the environment have been an underlying worry for years.

Often, those concerns are little more than background noise on the evening news as we eat our dinner – in order to get on with our lives, we have to push it to the back of our minds.

With an issue as enormous as the future fate of our environment, the planet and even the human race, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and paralysed by powerlessness.

After all, what can one person really do? Will meticulously sorting our rubbish into different bins, or going veggie one day per week actually make an impact in the face of floods, extreme weather and catastrophic temperatures?

Read more here https://metro.co.uk/

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