Almost one million Canadians have serious climate anxiety, study suggests (www.cbc.ca)

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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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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 days ago

The greatest change everyone should expect to see in the coming decades from climate change is .... mass migration.

As soon as the heat, flooding, hurricanes in the southern United States get worse, all those people are moving north, first to the northern states and then to Canada. As soon as forest fires get worse and destroy more land and communities, people like me in rural northern Ontario will migrate to cities and towns and to southern Ontario.

If conservatives think immigration is bad now, the future is going to have millions of people moving to places they don't want to go to to be greeted by people who don't want them there.