Eco-anxiety: when global warming worries
Eco-anxiety refers to this feeling of depression linked to the degradation of the environment and affects more and more citizens.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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On the occasion of World Environment Day, which took place on June 5, we are talking about these negative emotions and feelings, associated in particular with climate change: anxiety, insomnia, discouragement or a feeling of helplessness and loss of meaning. ...
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Eco-anxiety, this depression linked to environmental degradation, affects more and more citizens.
How can we explain that some people are more sensitive than others to this specific anxiety?
How to overcome it?
Dr Alice Desbiolles,
public health doctor and epidemiologist, author of the book
Eco-anxiety: Living serenely in a damaged world
, published by Fayard
Dr Laelia Benoit,
child psychiatrist currently working at
Yale University
, USA, on climate engagement in children and adolescents.
André Alihonou,
psychologist in
the NGO-Association Vinavo et environnement: ASSOVIE
for the defense and promotion of the rights of women, children and adolescents and whose main activity is the literacy of Vidomègons girls ( children placed, vendors in the markets of Benin)
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At the end of the program
, we talk about
the situation in Goma, following the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano
, with
Boubacar Korronney
, medical coordinator for
Médecins Sans Frontières
currently based in Rutshuru, in the North Kivu region, in the DRC.
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