Yeah, I figured there was no way for the experts to avoid admitting in the end that they wanted people to experience a mitigated version of it as a norm.
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https://sciencenorway.no/anxiety-climate...ty/2085202
EXCERPTS: How many people actually have climate anxiety? British researchers have now studied this. The study is based on an online survey among 1,338 British adults in 2020 and in 2022.
Almost half of the participants in the survey reported that they are very or extremely concerned about climate change. This is roughly the same as the researchers in Norway have found through research here.
Only 4.6 per cent reported that they experienced climate anxiety.
Young people most often experienced what the researchers call climate anxiety. This was also the case for those who watched and listened to a lot of news, and those who already had other anxiety problems.
[...] Having anxiety suggests that some emotions are exaggerated and irrational. But it is rational to have negative feelings about climate change, she believes.
“I am therefore surprised that only around half of the population say they are concerned about climate change,” Gregersen says.
"It is important that we recognise that it is not at all strange to have this concern," she says... (MORE - details)
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https://sciencenorway.no/anxiety-climate...ty/2085202
EXCERPTS: How many people actually have climate anxiety? British researchers have now studied this. The study is based on an online survey among 1,338 British adults in 2020 and in 2022.
Almost half of the participants in the survey reported that they are very or extremely concerned about climate change. This is roughly the same as the researchers in Norway have found through research here.
Only 4.6 per cent reported that they experienced climate anxiety.
Young people most often experienced what the researchers call climate anxiety. This was also the case for those who watched and listened to a lot of news, and those who already had other anxiety problems.
[...] Having anxiety suggests that some emotions are exaggerated and irrational. But it is rational to have negative feelings about climate change, she believes.
“I am therefore surprised that only around half of the population say they are concerned about climate change,” Gregersen says.
"It is important that we recognise that it is not at all strange to have this concern," she says... (MORE - details)