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Climate anxiety (n.) is persistent worry or distress about climate change and the future of the planet.
Climate anxiety (n.) is guilt about a plastic straw while a cargo ship sails past.
A Lancet Planetary Health survey of 10,000 people aged 16–25 in ten countries found 59% very or extremely worried about climate change.
Climate anxiety (n.) is the one fear your therapist can't call irrational.
Climate anxiety (n.) is a generation told to stay calm by the people who left the stove on.
Climate anxiety (n.) is the question "should we have kids?" answered by a weather map.
Researchers found young people's climate distress tracked with how badly they felt governments were responding — betrayal outweighed reassurance.
Climate anxiety (n.) is mourning a beach while you're still standing on it.
'Eco-anxiety' made Oxford's 2019 Word of the Year shortlist alongside 'flight shame' and 'ecocide'; 'climate emergency' won.
Climate anxiety (n.) is the rare fear that research makes worse, not better.