Feeling hopeless about climate change? Theres a class for that (at UW Bothell)
BOTHELL, Wash. — A new class aims to give hope and comfort to scientists, educators, and activists feeling utterly depressed about climate change.
The University of Washington Bothell is offering “Environmental Grief & Climate Anxiety,” a class for those who feel “increasingly hopeless about mass extinctions, melting ice sheets and dying oceans.”
The class will teach ways to cope with depression and anxiety related to climate change, as well as develop a “climate survival kit” to help with the emotions.
As the ice caps continue to melt and temperatures heat up, climate change anxiety has been on the rise worldwide, according to a new study. There are stories of young adults refusing to drink water in hopes it would help the climate, and scientists not returning to past worksites, out of fear of how drastically they’ve changed.
Near-term human extinction support groups have even popped up around the Puget Sound, lending ears for people who feel the human race will be gone in a few decades due to drastic habitat loss.
More: http://q13fox.com/2018/01/24/feeling-hopeless-about-climate-change-theres-a-class-for-that-at-uw-bothell/
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