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[Voter's card] Eco-anxiety, this evil linked to global warming that eats away at young people

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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: Lucie Bouteloup

Pervasive concern related to the environment and climate change that can lead in the most serious cases to depressive episodes, eco-anxiety, or solastalgia, affects more and more young people.

As proof, according to a recent study in the journal

, nearly one in two young people aged 16 to 25 say they suffer from eco-anxiety. 

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