I have a hard time getting environmental news that I can relate to or get others interested in. I hope this will change. I’m a member of organizations that send newsletters and that’s my best source so far. I’m not a scientist. I’m not able to be part of groups who recreate in wilderness places but I have lived in those wilderness places. I don’t know all the political details of public land management though it is a top concern to me. So mostly I like information I get from Inside Climate News and from my local group Virginia League of Conservation Voters.
Janice, Inside Climate News is an excellent source for news on climate change. They also have other environmental stories. I appreciate their straightforward, no nonsense approach.
Thank you, Paul. This assuages some of my anxiety about climate anxiety. If only ten percent are experiencing climate anxiety, that's great news. I had wanted to include more statistics in my piece about the consumption of news in America. Headlines have been increasingly negative since the 1950s and fewer people are consuming news in recent years. I would like more people engaged in and supporting solutions, not just understanding that it's real.
I read 'Scientific American'. A couple of days ago, I heard about a Substacker called 'Your Weirdo Friend', who discussed climate change with 'Missives from a Middle-Aged Man', another Substacker, in a way that grabbed my attention, because they estimate that as many as 6 billion people could die as a result of climate change.
Six billion? I'd like to know where they got that figure. I believe there are eight billion people on the planet. If that figure is correct three out of four individuals will die because of global heating.
Interesting stats. I'd say a solid 1/3 of my California based therapy clients speak often of climate anxiety. (Of course, that doesn't make them representative of the general population.)
I have a hard time getting environmental news that I can relate to or get others interested in. I hope this will change. I’m a member of organizations that send newsletters and that’s my best source so far. I’m not a scientist. I’m not able to be part of groups who recreate in wilderness places but I have lived in those wilderness places. I don’t know all the political details of public land management though it is a top concern to me. So mostly I like information I get from Inside Climate News and from my local group Virginia League of Conservation Voters.
Janice, Inside Climate News is an excellent source for news on climate change. They also have other environmental stories. I appreciate their straightforward, no nonsense approach.
Thank you, Paul. This assuages some of my anxiety about climate anxiety. If only ten percent are experiencing climate anxiety, that's great news. I had wanted to include more statistics in my piece about the consumption of news in America. Headlines have been increasingly negative since the 1950s and fewer people are consuming news in recent years. I would like more people engaged in and supporting solutions, not just understanding that it's real.
Yeah, I liked the finding that even the folks experiencing climate anxiety, very few were thought we were totally doomed.
I read 'Scientific American'. A couple of days ago, I heard about a Substacker called 'Your Weirdo Friend', who discussed climate change with 'Missives from a Middle-Aged Man', another Substacker, in a way that grabbed my attention, because they estimate that as many as 6 billion people could die as a result of climate change.
Six billion? I'd like to know where they got that figure. I believe there are eight billion people on the planet. If that figure is correct three out of four individuals will die because of global heating.
Interesting stats. I'd say a solid 1/3 of my California based therapy clients speak often of climate anxiety. (Of course, that doesn't make them representative of the general population.)