Understanding Eco-Anxiety
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Join me and Caroline Hickman, a lecturer in social work and climate psychology at the University of Bath as we unpack the subject of Eco-anxiety, In partnership with E.ON NEXT - the energy provider powering space for change in a mission to tackle eco-anxiety.
Eco Anxiety is very real. The overwhelming majority of my listeners are very stressed about the future and the frightening implications of climate change. This can motivate us to take action. However, it can also have a reverse effect. It can be debilitating. It can be overwhelming. It can leave us feeling engulfed in the doom of it all, ready to throw in the towel.
So….this special bonus episode is designed to educate you about eco-anxiety, and give you tools to help diffuse it when it next arises. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, dear listener and welcome to this week's episode of |
| 0:22.9 | owning it, the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This is a special and very necessary episode |
| 0:29.4 | sponsored by Eon Next, the energy provider powering space for change in a mission to tackle |
| 0:35.4 | eco-anxiety. The theme of this episode, it's just that |
| 0:39.0 | eco-anxiety, climate change anxiety, whatever you want to call it, it's essentially the fear of |
| 0:44.0 | environmental doom. Lovely way to wake up in the morning, isn't it? It's that sense of frustration |
| 0:48.6 | and hopelessness we experience when it feels like we're going to be totally unable to help stop |
| 0:53.3 | climate change. It's been rising |
| 0:55.1 | rapidly in recent years, especially amongst younger people, many of whom have understandable concerns |
| 1:00.2 | about how a change in climate will impact their future. Now, while a lot of the anxieties I talk about |
| 1:05.9 | on this podcast are more about perceived threats or things that we might even be imagining, |
| 1:10.7 | anxiety about the future of our planet is totally valid. You are not crazy for feeling this anxious |
| 1:15.8 | about something so real. It makes complete sense that we would be as worried as we are. And that |
| 1:21.0 | anxiety is in a way vital in many instances. However, problems arise when it becomes debilitating, |
| 1:27.0 | when it leaves us feeling paralyzed. |
| 1:29.1 | This can be especially dangerous as we feel there's nothing we can do. However, that is just not the |
| 1:33.4 | case. For example, Eon Next's own exploring eco-anxiety in Gen Z report gave me this little tidbit |
| 1:40.1 | that 20% of CO2 comes from home energy so we can even start in our own home and make a massive |
| 1:45.9 | difference. You see, researchers have found that eco-anxiety predicts lower collective action. Why? |
| 1:51.8 | Well, because it can cause so much stress, so much worry, that we're unable to act and unable to |
| 1:56.7 | get involved with climate action, and I have certainly felt this myself. We might think the easiest |
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