'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change

'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change

• Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.

When the U.N. released its latest climate report in October, it warned that without “unprecedented” action, catastrophic conditions could arrive by 2040.

• A 10-Step Program for Climate Grief

After the U.N. report was released, Jordan looked for a way to help her children cope. 
She saw a sign at her church for a support group that deals with the issue, the Good Grief Network.
Founded by Aimee Reau, 30, and LaUra Schmidt, 32, Good Grief offers a 10-step program to help people deal with collective grief — issues that affect a whole society, like racism, mass shootings and climate grief.
...For some young people, the sadness is caused by inaction.
Cindy Chung, 17, of Bayonne, New Jersey, is an activist with iMatter, a network of high school students who advocate for environmental measures on a local level. 
She struggles to understand how people, especially adults, can continue with business as usual.
“It wasn’t our choice to be born into a doomed world,” she said. “All this terrible stuff can happen by 2030, and I won’t even be 30 years old. It’s so frightening.”"
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