We´re just beginning to understand the toll climate change takes on mental health
(WorldNews Environment)

When psychiatrist Janet Lewis thinks back to the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, she still remembers the horizontal trees and the collective grief. In her town of Charleston, South Carolina, there was `sadness and desolation,` she says. `You can kind of feel like your whole world is turned upside down when the environment isn´t how it´s supposed to be.` There´s a word for this experience: `solastagia.` The term, coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, refers to the specific kind of climate-induced anxiety that comes from witnessing the destruction of your home environment. Along with causing existential worry, climate change upends ecosystems, destabilizes...