“Not about us without us” – the feelings and hopes of climate-concerned young people around the world

Diffey, James; Wright, Sacha; Uchendu, Jennifer Olachi; Masithi, Shelot; Olude, Ayomide; Juma, Damian Omari; Anya, Lekwa Hope; Salami, Temilade; Mogathala, Pranav Reddy; Agarwal, Hrithik; Roh, Hyunji; Aboy, Kyle Villanueva; Cote, J. Allan; Saini, Aditiya; Mitchell, Kadisha; Kleczka, Jessica; Lobner, Nadeem Gomaa; Ialamov, Leann; Borbely, Monika; Hostetler, Tupelo; Wood, Alaina; Rodriguez-Uruchurtu, Aoife Mercedes; Lawrance, Emma

doi:10.1080/09540261.2022.2126297

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“… 9 However, it is also important to recognise that policy makers and researchers often do not give importance to the feelings and hopes of young people which has adverse impacts for their mental wellbeing as well as for the possible actions that could be taken to mitigate the climate crisis. 54 As more and more young people are getting involved in climate-related action and are getting aware of climate-related information distress can result. This can also lead to larger conflicts with the administrations in the form of demonstrations and disruptions to social living.…”

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A cross-sectional survey of climate and COVID-19 crises in young people in Indian slums: context, psychological responses, and agency

Yatirajula¹,

Prashad²,

Daniel³

et al. 2023

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A cross-sectional survey of climate and COVID-19 crises in young people in Indian slums: context, psychological responses, and agency

Yatirajula¹,

Prashad²,

Daniel³

et al. 2023

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

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“…The young seems to be more vulnerable to certain psychological consequence to climate event [37], such as psychoterratic syndromes and climate related distress [38 ▪ ], or pretrauma symptoms and distress caused by the loss of advantageous land [15] even if they are not directly exposed to visible consequences or live in big cities, which may not represent a protective effect. In case of direct exposure to climate change-related events, they show PTSD symptoms, higher intensity of emotional stress, feeling of hopelessness, powerlessness, alarm.…”

Section: Disadvantaged Populationsmentioning

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Is climate change affecting mental health of urban populations?

Cianconi

Hanife

Hirsch

et al. 2023

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose of reviewIn this article, we outline an up-to-date overview of the climate change impact on mental health of urban population, conducted by searching the PubMed database for relevant studies published in the past 12–18 months, in English.Recent findingsClimate change is part of a larger systemic ecological problem in which human demands are exceeding the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. We are witnessing a ‘climate chaos’, a phase of instability and transformation, which is leading humans into a psychological condition of ‘systemic insecurity’ and a shared feeling of uncertainty. Currently, one of the places where our species is particularly exposed to climate change are cities, due to build-up in urban infrastructure, rapid and chaotic urbanization, high densities and recent rapid growth, social inequality, and ‘heat island effect’.The impact of climate change on cities exposes vulnerable groups to the worse mental health consequences. These groups include the homelessness, slum dwellers for whom the ‘neighbourhood effects’ are being discussed, climate refugees and migrants, young people, and finally those who assist these people.SummaryIn order to realize broader mental health prevention in cities exposed to climate change phenomena, public health approaches are needed. Institutions must avoid reinforcing inequalities among the more vulnerable groups or create new inequalities.

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“…For technical reasons, we could not include under 18year-olds in this study, but emerging research conducted among that age group shows that they indeed experience many kinds of climate emotions (e.g., Hickman, 2020;Feldman, 2021;Halstead et al, 2021). Many of these young adults have commented that they feel that older adults are not taking their climate emotions seriously enough (e.g., Diffey et al, 2022). Thus, by focusing on climate emotions in our research, we at the same time wanted to give at least to these young people an experience of adults being very interested about their climate emotions.…”

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Complex dynamics of climate emotions among environmentally active Finnish and American young people

Coppola

Pihkala

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Climate emotions have become an increasingly salient issue since the beginning of the 2000s. This paper draws on data from in-depth interviews from the United States (USA) and Finland to provide insight into the complex dynamics of climate emotions in 23 environmentally active young people in these two countries. The analysis centers on two main themes: (a) complex dynamics of climate emotions and (b) identities and felt social expectations. The results support recent research about the importance of anger, grief, and guilt as very common climate emotions among active people, although a broad range of emotions was recognized by the participants. Some observations were made about the role of cultural factors in these two countries. Through this analysis, this article contributes to the understanding about the ways in which identities and felt social expectations shape climate emotions, including feelings of inadequacy and obligation. Analysis of the experiences of this limited number of young people shows the prevalence of feelings of inadequacy and thus supports the recent arguments about the need to provide young people tools to set their responsibility in context, in order to avoid negative consequences of the felt pressures.

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“Not about us without us” – the feelings and hopes of climate-concerned young people around the world

Cited by 36 publications

References 36 publications

A cross-sectional survey of climate and COVID-19 crises in young people in Indian slums: context, psychological responses, and agency

A cross-sectional survey of climate and COVID-19 crises in young people in Indian slums: context, psychological responses, and agency

Is climate change affecting mental health of urban populations?

Complex dynamics of climate emotions among environmentally active Finnish and American young people

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