Go Green: What is eco-anxiety?

Learning about the climate and ecological crisis can be very disturbing and overwhelming. We may feel a variety of different emotions often grouped under the umbrella label of eco-anxiety. But what is eco-anxiety and how can we learn to live meaningfully with the reality of the crisis without falling apart?

Trudi Macagnino is a Staff Tutor in Psychology & Counselling in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. She is a psychotherapist and is completing a PhD on eco-anxiety. Trudi is also co-author of a new OpenLearn course called Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis | OpenLearn - Open University
 
Learn more about eco-anxiety: https://societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/ecoanxiety-stories-conversations-actions/313

For OU students, there is support available on the student support page of the Environment Study website Website: Environment | OU online (open.ac.uk)