climate anxiety (uncountable)
- Anxiety about climate breakdown.
- Coordinate term: ecoanxiety
2021 November 4, Peter Kalmus, “Climate depression is real. And it is spreading fast among our youth”, in The Guardian[1]:Therapy can help people struggling with climate anxiety and depression; but since climate emotions are driven by real, intensifying, physical processes on Earth, therapy only treats the symptom.
2022 February 6, Ellen Barry, “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:Alina Black, a mother of two in Portland, Ore., sought a therapist who specialized in climate anxiety to address her mounting panics. “I feel like I have developed a phobia to my way of life,” she said.
