With climate concerns on the rise, experts warn existing mental health resources won’t be able to keep up. By Brishti Basu · CBC News
“dealing with” is a charitable way to describe “pacing around my apartment desperately trying to avoid thoughts of existential dread”
You just wait, the more it sinks in, the lower the birthrate will get. Then you’ll see what a demographic crisis looks like. And this future is already sealed. The only question is exactly how bad it will get and how our society is going to react to it. Look at the last two large societal shocks that happened in the 20th century for clues.
And on the other side, there are people who want to have kids but can’t afford to start a family.
Literally none of my friends from major urban centres had kids until their 30s, and several of them are now aging out of being able to have kids (without being able to afford housing) or facing fertility challenges (now that they’re finally in a place to try to start a family).
Them and us in the same boat. But look, it’s the same engine driving both the climate crisis and the unaffordability one.
concernsawarenessWe’re going to see WWI levels of PTSD, which they called “shell shock” back then. We’re already breaking suicide records this year so it’s just going to get worse. I have no idea how we are going to fix this.
Shell shock wasn’t PTSD. It was actual neurological damage from the concussion of constant artillery strikes nearby for prolonged periods.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard about that. Looks like there’s good evidence to back up that explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
More antidepressants! /s
Nowadays the line would be “Have you considered MAID?”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With catastrophic weather events rapidly becoming the norm each year in Canada and around the world, young people are increasingly worried about their futures.
Speaking to CBC News in Victoria, with a haze of wildfire smoke hanging in the backdrop, Hannah Fessler, 16, expressed worry about people her age left to deal with problems created by previous generations.
Such accounts from teenagers like Fessler and Silva augment research studies that illustrate how climate change is impacting young people’s mental health.
As weather events threaten to change entire landscapes in coming decades, experts worry that mental health resources might fall short of meeting people’s needs.
The consensus within the Canadian Psychological Association is that the prevalence of climate anxiety will worsen in the next few years, according to a spokesperson for the organization, and there are not enough mental health professionals available to meet this growing need.
It’s tough to gauge whether call volumes increase in times of natural disasters, she said, but Martin speculates that a 30-per-cent spike in contacts to Kids Help Phone in June could have been driven by climate change-induced incidents.
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