"Apocalypse Feeling": Heat, Drought and Fires Fuel Eco-Anxiety
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André had to put a stop to illness, as he was suffering from "violent crises of anxiety" during the heat wave of almost two weeks that started in mid-June. "I was completely paralyzed and unable to concentrate," particularly with the idea of "summers to come," says this engineer, who wants to keep anonymity with his employer, and because he says he feels shame. The term eco-anxiety, conceptualized in 1996 by Belgian-Canadian public health resear…
In the face of the multiplication of episodes of heat and fire, more and more French people express a psychological distress related to the future of the planet "I had to stop the work, he said.
Paris, France "I had to stop working, I couldn't think of anything else." Like millions of Frenchmen, André, 32, suffers from eco-anxiety in the middle of the summer from unprecedented heat waves, fires and droughts that feed a "apocalypse sensation." Western Europe lived the warmest summer start ever recorded and France broke a record with 52 days of heat wave since mid-June, spread over three episodes, one of which still hasn't ended. André, w…
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