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Eco-anxiety

Geoff Riley

9th August 2019

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Are worries about the climate crisis and the multitude of environmental challenges facing us and our families making us ill? This BBC Radio report asks whether eco-anxiety is different from any other anxiety disorders?

Some psychologists are calling it "eco-anxiety".

Why worrying about the environment is making us ill.https://t.co/LgJaqMHJqu
— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) August 9, 2019

We live in the age of 'eco-anxiety'. And the best way to fight anxiety of any kind is through action. Volunteering for the @NCC_CNC does the trick! https://t.co/m7pI495vmQ
— Eric Gardiner (@e_gardiner) August 9, 2019

We spoke to nine young people about how eco-anxiety—the stress associated with facing a climate crisis and uncertainty about the future—is playing a role in their lives and what they’ve been doing in response. https://t.co/onaNLYlEYb
— VICE (@VICE) August 7, 2019

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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