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The study, published Tuesday in Nature Mental Health, randomly surveyed more than 2,400 Canadians aged 13 or older and categorized them using a climate change anxiety scale developed in the U.S. It asks the extent to which people agree with statements such as "Thinking about climate change makes it difficult for me to sleep" or "I find myself crying because of climate change."

It found that 90 per cent of respondents were concerned about climate change and 68 per cent felt some level of anxiety — something the researchers thought was a normal, healthy response, given the impacts of climate change such as wildfires and extreme heat.

But 2.35 per cent had "clinically relevant" symptoms.

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[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Migration, hyperinflation and general market disruptions and CONFLICT. When harvests get whacked by flood, heat, droughts, you are going to see food get scarce and skyrocket so high and so fast that nobody alive today will have seen the likes of it.

What happens to markets when there is not enough to go around? First we ration by price, then we ration with violence. Everybody paying attention knows this and has been planning for it.

A perennial favourite a lecture at UBC from Gwynn Dyer, PhD Military Historian, author and journalist promoting his book on the Geopolitics of Climate Change. If you're not anxious, you're not understanding the severity of the situation we are in. Ignorance isn't a valid defence against climate change.

Canadian media always puts a dull face on the danger we are in and loves to put shiny hope on anything it can gets its hands on. They don't want to yell fire in a crowded theatre and cause a panic so everyone sat in the theatre as it burns down around and on them and they never left their seats. As our cities choke on the smoke of the burning boreal forests, the public wonders what will save them.

"Who will save us?" the public screamed as everything they took for granted changed severely and dramatically for the worse.

The scientists replied "It's too late for that, now. We told you how to save yourselves 40 years ago and you didn't bother. Enjoy the shitshow, or don't, whatever".

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