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Tackling Climate Anxiety ​in the classroom - Scotdec/Highland One World 

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Tackling Climate Anxiety ​in the classroom - Scotdec/Highland One World 

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This padlet is designed to support our anytime learning resource Tackling Climate Anxiety in the Classroom.

Scotdec and Highland One World work within the IDEAS network ​to advocate for a Global Citizenship approach to learning ​around the Climate Emergency. Using participatory l​earning methodologies enables young people to enhance key ski​lls and values to develop greater curiosity about the world a​nd feel greater agency for positive change

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Exploring Climate Justice - A human rights-based approach

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Exploring Climate Justice - A human rights-based approach

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This resource is for anyone looking to create space to talk about climate change, and bring a climate justice, trauma-informed pedagogy or a resilience lens into their practice. It has practical recommendations for building resilience, nurturing 'messy hope' and suggested activities to use in the classroom.

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Keep Scotland Beautiful - Climate Action Schools 

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Climate Action Schools is our framework of education initiatives to support Scotland's educators, young people and children to progress Learning for Sustainability and climate change education.

Climate Action Schools focuses on five main outcomes: Learning for Sustainability; Climate Emergency; Biodiversity; Litter and Pollution; and amplifying Pupil Voice.

Visit our Padlet to see what's coming up

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Emma Beddington has produced an A-Z of Climate Anxiety for the Guardian newspaper.

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Anxiety

Much like the planet, people have a tipping point. Mine came last summer, when a respected scientist told me matter-of-factly that he thought it was "at least highly unlikely " that his teenage children would survive beyond late middle age. At that point, three decades of climate unease crystallised into debilitating dread, and I'm far from alone.

"There are hundreds of people contacting us, looking for support," says Caroline Hickman of the Climate Psychology Alliance. It's not just individuals either. "We've reached a level where organisations are asking for professional help to support their staff: civil servants, museums, universities... They're noticing massive increases in anxiety and concern."

Eco anxiety isn't pathological: it's a legitimate reaction to the climate crisis. "It's mentally healthy to feel this way," says Hickman. "It's a sign of empathy." The real problem is how we manage our feelings.

Biodiversity

We know that global species extinction - already at a rate that is unprecedentedover the past 10m years - is accelerating, but here's a chilling example: the UK has lost 97% of its hedgehog population since the 1950s.

"You look at these horrific headlines about habitats and mass extinctions," says Emma Mitchell, author of The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us. "People say, 'What can we do, we feel completely powerless?' My answer is: we can do a great deal."

If you have outside space, follow gardener and author Kate Bradbury 's advice and plant native. "Native plants have specific relationships with native moths, which lay their eggs on the leaves," she says. "Birds then feed the caterpillars to their young, and hedgehogs, frogs, mice, wasps... pretty much everything eats caterpillars. So by planting native shrubs and trees you're creating a food chain in your garden and, literally, preventing further decline of species."

Avoid peat-based compost: peat stores vast amounts of carbon and peat bogs are precious habitats for wildlife.

If you don't already, support local campaigns to preserve habitat. An area of exceptional biodiversity near me is currently under threat, so I'm signing petitions, protesting and sneaking it into articles (save Askham Bog!) . Incidentally, as Mitchell says, "There's research that shows that if the biodiversity in a green space is higher it has more of a positive impact on your mental health."

Community

The climate crisis is happening to all of us and experts agree the most effective responses to it are collective. Acting together helps us feel less powerless, but there are also real benefits to expressing our anxiety, anger or grief with others.

"Many people report that actually finding that they are not alone in this thinking, talking to other people about it, finding like-minded communities, is really powerful," says Dr Emma Lawrance, a fellow at Imperial College London's Institute of Global Health Innovation. In the US, the Good Grief Network hosts climate anxiety groups based loosely on the AA model, with a 10-step programme, from "Accept the severity of the predicament" to "Reinvest in meaningful effort."

Denial

Despite overwhelming evidence, truly terrifying institutional denial of the climate crisis continues. The Trump administration has blocked a congressional testimony warning about climate change, suppressed peer-reviewed government-funded studies on its effects, and fired a scientist who refused to alter reports to downplay its human causes. Worse, the administration likes to have its climate cake and eat it, denying the science while simultaneously pointing to the advanced state of ecological devastation as justification for not blocking fossil-fuel projects, whose incremental impact, they argue, would be negligible.

Meanwhile, President " Come back global warming, we need you" Trump has confirmed the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement if he's re-elected.

Energy

For the UK, at least, you can downgrade your anxiety on this score: things are improving. This year we went two weeks without using coal to generate electricity, and in the last quarter, for the first time, renewables generated more energy than fossil fuels. Increased efficiency and an evolving economy mean demand for electricity is falling, too, so there is some good news.

Fast fashion

We need clothes, but the fashion industry is regularly rated as one of the world's worst polluters, with textiles producing an estimated 1.2bn tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. "Solving the problems of fast fashion can often feel like that puzzle where you're trying to get a fox, a chicken and a bag of grain across the river. Just when you think you have an answer (Cotton! Clothes rental! H&M!), someone pops up to tell you it's problematic," says Lauren Bravo, whose book, How to Break Up with Fast Fashion, is published soon. It's a funny, achievable guide to reducing our fabric footprint, and covers swapping, mending, washing less and, most importantly, resisting the urge to shop.

Greta

Does brilliant, furious Greta Thunberg make you feel uncomfortable? She should. She should be making TikToks or something, not crossing oceans to shout at the UN, or becoming a beacon of misplaced "hope" for a generation too feeble to acknowledge its catastrophic failures. No wonder she makes a certain type of middle-aged person incandescently angry and many of the rest of us profoundly guilty.

'Demand for electricity is falling, so there is some good news.' Illustration: Phil Hackett/The Observer

Hope

"Is there any good news?" I text my father, sorrowfully. An ecologist who predicted a "perfect storm" of food, water and energy shortage within our lifetime 10 years ago, he's not inclined to boundless optimism. Nostra-dad-mus flagged the UN-REDD programme, which is making real progress in fighting deforestation worldwide. Ethiopia, too, planted 350m trees in one day in July this year. And a new ocean clean-up device has shown promise in c ollecting plastic in the Pacific.

If that's not cheering enough, how about " le blob ", the self-healing, problem-solving, 720-sexed organism no one understands? New biodiversity! I for one welcome our new yellow overlord.

Information

The onslaught of information on extreme weather events, dire research findings and ecological catastrophes fuels our sense of panic and powerlessness, every forest fire or starving polar bear is a jolt of stress. "Obviously people want and need to be informed and understand the facts, and it's normal to feel strong emotions in response to those facts," says Dr Emma Lawrance of Imperial College. "But it's important when people are finding it too much that they feel like they are able to step back and take breaks."

Decide how and when to engage with climate-crisis information and seek out good environmental news: it is out there.

Jet anxiety

Feel sick on planes and not because of turbulence? You're not alone. The Swedish concept of , flying shame, has gone mainstream, though we've yet to assimilate the associated tågskryt (train bragging) or find an equivalent for #jagstannarpåmarken, meaning "I stay on the ground." Flygskam works: the number of domestic Swedish flights dropped by 8% in the first four months of this year. I wonder if there's a Swedish term for "paying a fortune for a terrible service provided by amoral weasels"? Probably not... lucky Swedes.

Kids

In her work as a research fellow at the University of Bath, Caroline Hickman frequently talks to children (and their worried parents) about climate anxiety. Her advice? Resist the natural impulse to try to protect them. "Children are online and finding out about this stuff. You need to learn how to take them towards painful things, show them how to navigate, but not to get overwhelmed and terrified." It's important to tell the truth, but balance it with positive messages and activities. As Hickman says, "Reminders to still play, even though we're dealing with painful things, are absolutely crucial."

Loss

The funeral that Iceland held for the Okjokull glacier this summer, after it was lost to climate change, was a pure expression of "solastalgia", a term coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht and defined as "The pain or sickness caused by the loss of, or inability to derive solace from, the present state of one's home environment." In parts of the world where the impact of climate change is physically unavoidable, loss and grief are the dominant emotions: we're lucky we're just anxious.

Milk

'Dairy is bad, but plant milks frequently mean destructive monocultures.' Illustration: Phil Hackett/The Observer

Ooh, tricky. Dairy is bad, but plant milks frequently mean destructive monocultures. Even oat milk, the current great off-white saviour, comes in hard-to-recycle Tetra Paks. Maybe just moisten your muesli with your own tears?

No kids?

Some view choosing not to have children as a positive act to reduce environmental impact: a Swedish study in 2017 estimated that having one fewer child per family can save an average of 58.6 tonnes of carbon every year. Others consider it unethical to bring children into a world whose future is so terrifyingly compromised.

For many more, it's a fraught question. On its website, BirthStrike collects testimony from those struggling with the issue: "Over the past 10 years or so, all the accumulated knowledge around climate change and global warming has made me increasingly nervous to have children," says one.

For eco-anxious parents, it's another source of guilt and worry: have we ruined the planet by having kids, or our kids by having them at such an awful time?

Oceans

We've mistreated the ocean for decades and now it's coming for us: recent research has indicated that 300 million people (rather than the previous estimate of 80 million) are at risk from rising sea levels. The IPCC has also predicted that extreme events linked to sea level will be annual by 2050. Then there's acidification, plastics and bleaching of corals. How anyone still finds ocean sounds relaxing is beyond me: you might as well meditate to revving chainsaws.

'We've mistreated the ocean for decades and now.' Illustration: Phil Hackett/The Observer

Paralysis

That feeling of helplessness is a common response to catastrophic ecological news. I often stand in the supermarket overwhelmed: is all fish terrible? How about bananas? It feels as if there are no simple decisions now, but according to Imperial College's Grantham Institute, there are a few, actually. The Institute (which is working towards "a sustainable, resilient, zero-carbon future") has published a list of 9 Things You Can Do About Climate Change. They are things "absolutely everybody can do that can make a difference," according to Institute co-director Martin Siegert. Some are covered here (eat less meat, preserve green spaces, avoid flying); others - invest your money wisely, use your voice - aren't. "They are relatively small steps," says Siegert. "If anything, they're going to improve your life."

Quinoa

Gluten-free, high in protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals, the nubbly South American grain soared in popularity in the health-conscious 2000s. Soon, reports emerged that its cultivation was bad for Andean farmers, then there were counter-claims that it wasn't. There now seems to be a consensus that its "super food" status contributes to unsustainable farming techniques, meaning fewer llamas.

Can we finally stop eating Satan's cereal? Llamas are great and we need some good news.

Resilience

"Building resilience is essential to address the physical and mental health impacts of climate change," said the American Psychological Association in 2017.

But how? Experts agree on broad strategies: acknowledge your feelings, take action in ways that feel meaningful, be part of a community and occasionally run around screaming until you're hoarse (OK, not the last bit).

Single-use plastic

It's terrible, but guess what? It's also complicated. An Environment Agency report concluded you'd have to use your cotton tote 131 times to take its global warming potential below that of a plastic bag. Or what about cucumbers? 2011 research for the Journal of Food Science and Technology indicated plastic wrapping increases shelf life by six days, so what's more important: avoiding waste or eliminating plastic?

Then there's the opacity and inconsistency of recycling policies. Recent BBC research found that 47% of people argue about what plastic can be recycled, which seems low - I know 100% of my household is sick of me uncovering their recycling transgressions and complaining about them.

Tories

The UK Committee on Climate Change's 2019 report on progress makes for dismal reading. The Government has implemented only one of the committee's 25 recommendations from 2018 and runs its climate crisis preparations "like Dad's Army", according to committee chairman Lord Deben. The "net zero" law promises to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and the fracking ban looks like good news (if it doesn't turn out to be a short-lived election stunt), but the CCC's prediction is that 2025 and 2030 targets will be missed by an even bigger margin than last year's.

Urgency

Greta said it: our house is on fire. But, of course, right now, your actual house isn't. It's quite chilly in mine and there's a blue tit pecking a fat ball outside. That's part of the problem: we - at least in the north - can ignore the climate crisis much of the time, which makes the eco-anxious feel like those chaps who march around wearing sandwich boards saying the end is nigh.

Veganism

Ah, veganism, the most emotive of dietary regimes... yes, worse than cannibalism. A recent investigation asked: "Why do people hate vegans?" From Waitrose Food magazine editor William Sitwell's notorious "killing vegans" email, to Piers Morgan's boggle-eyed outrage at the launch of Greggs's vegan sausage roll, there's a profound discomfort around vegans (they're better than us and we don't like it, basically), which often becomes open hostility.

Plant-based eating isn't an environmental panacea, either. As the head of the Food Climate Research Network, Dr Tara Garnett, brilliantly summarised in a recent article for Brain Food magazine, recent concerns about intensive monocultures and highly processed vegan foods have led some eco-thinkers to conclude that "Veganism is the vacuous entitled daughter of Big Food and Agribiz... Vegans are the problem."

Should we be eating grass-fed beef and dumping facon and not-dogs? It's complicated, and many UK farmers are thoughtful stewards of native habitats and feel unfairly demonised. But eating fewer animal products is almost certainly a good thing.

'Eating fewer animal products is almost certainly a good thing'. Illustration: Phil Hackett/The Observer

Wipes

They're not strictly a climate issue, but wipes are unequivocally terrible, changing the shape of rivers and threatening marine wildlife. We use an energy-gobbling 11bn a year, but they're easy to avoid. Let's just not, eh?

XR

Extinction Rebellion has only existed since October 2018, but swiftly shook off its "uncooperative crusties" reputation, with a series of high-profile protests showcasing its transformation into a global campaigning force.

October's UK fortnight of protest had moments of controversy (the Canning Town tube protest was widely considered a misstep), but it also showed that XR now attracts mass support, including from unexpected places: 77-year-old Rabbi Jeffrey Newman and 91-year-old John Lymes were arrested, and there are XR doctors, lawyers and farmers.

Of course, that makes climate worriers who haven't become climate warriors feel even more guilty: why aren't we getting involved? Is it hypocritical to complain about government inaction from the comfort of our own homes? Almost certainly.

Youth

My teenage years were spent sulking to a Smiths sountrack and buying ra-ra skirts in Miss Selfridge (we didn't know about fast fashion then). Teenagers now don't have the luxury of solipsism: they're facing a world in crisis. A UK survey found 40% of 16-24-year-olds feel "overwhelmed" by climate change.

For Jake Woodier of the UK Student Climate Network, the energy young people pour into activism is a product of the fear and anxiety they live with, from both the increasingly dire warnings in the media and from witnessing, "The destructive effects and consequences of climate breakdown suffered by their peers around the world." Taking action is an important outlet. "I think that a lot of young people feel that they're suffering it alone," says Woodier. "Organising with a group and a movement gives quite a comforting sense, in a way."

For the rest of us, it's a case of trying to understand what young people are going through and supporting them: and that means no muttering about not turning the lights out. We left the planetary lights on for decades; we're in no position to lecture them.

Zero waste

Zero waste is a seductive idea, but unsustainable unless you're an off-grid gardener-slash-engineer happy brushing your teeth with a twig. Limiting your food waste, however, is eminently achievable. Food and science writer Ann Storr turned her decades-long eco anxiety into an excellent, practical food waste blog, the Storr Cupboard.

"Half of all the UK's food waste happens in the home," says Storr. (That's 7.1m tonnes a year, according to waste campaigners Wrap.) "Meal planning is the best way to reduce your waste: 10 minutes spent meal planning so that you know what to buy and when to eat it will save you money and reduce your food waste."

It's a small gesture; they all are. And that's OK, I think: for most of us, small change is all we have. "These most dire future scenarios are not set in stone," Emma Lawrance reminds me. "That means that even as the climate changes, at every step we can be looking at what world we want to create from that point. There's never a moment it's OK to give up; there are always steps to take towards the better trajectory."

We can't save the world as individuals, but we can make it a tiny bit better; and perhaps save our sanity in the process.

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A-Z of climate anxiety: how to avoid meltdown

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A toolkit to teach 10-16-year-olds how to prepare for and cope with extreme weather events, including resources on flood risk, how to prepare for the next heatwave, and eco-anxiety.

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Weather Together

A toolkit to teach 10-16-year-olds how to prepare for and cope with extreme weather events, including resources on flood risk, how to prepare for the next heatwave, and eco-anxiety.

Extreme weather in the UK is happening more frequently. Despite the increasing knowledge of a climate crisis, many of us wouldn't know what to do in the next heatwave or how to prepare when flood warnings are issued. The lack of environmental education around extreme weather in the UK has increased eco-anxiety among young people.

The Red Cross designed this toolkit to equip learners with the skills and knowledge they need to prepare for and cope with extreme weather. The toolkit includes three topics:

Learning objectives
Learners will:

learn why everyone needs to prepare for extreme weather events

apply learning to know how to prepare for and cope with extreme weather

share learning to help others prepare for and cope with extreme weather.

How do I use this teaching resource?

We highly recommend beginning by downloading and reading our "Weather Together" index. This essential resource provides crucial information on maximizing the features and functionality available in these Power Point files. It will also assist you in navigating swiftly through all the resources listed on this page.

The toolkit is structured so you can dip into each of the 3 topics (flooding, eco-anxiety, and heatwaves) and select the activities that you think best suit your learners and lessons. The toolkit has a learn, apply, share structure.

learn activities: raise awareness

apply activities: teach preparedness

share activities: build community resilience.

For each topic, we suggest completing at least one learn and one apply activity before completing a share activity.

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To help build community resilience and support you with homework, the Weather Together award encourages learners to share what they learn in the activities with friends and family. The Weather Together award tracker can be used to log progress.
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How youth climate anxiety is linked to government inaction

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Watch a panel discussion on a new study about climate anxiety across the world.

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"What makes them anxious is when people don't talk to them about it."

A survey of 10,000 16-25 year olds found climate change is causing them widespread anxiety. But the lead researcher says this doesn't mean we should just avoid the subject https://t.co/5hOI30CkcZ
- BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) September 14, 2021

Truly alarming results from this study on #ClimateAnxiety! Nearly 1 in 2 children and young people say feelings about climate negatively affect their daily lives. What more do we need for our governments to deal with the climate emergency? #WeFeelThisToo https://t.co/3ZM5h26yNQ
- Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) September 14, 2021

Four in ten young people are so anxious about climate change that they are hesitant about having children

The largest scientific study to date of climate anxiety in 16 to 25-year-olds found that it was affecting the daily lives of 45% of them https://t.co/Q2Xyee2UHM
- The Times (@thetimes) September 14, 2021

🚨NEW🚨

Study in @TheLancetPlanet finds nearly 60% of young people are worried about #ClimateChange

"Our #ClimateAnxiety comes from feeling betrayed by government inaction" @mitzijonelle

The message is clear - young people must be heard@TRF_Stories👇 https://t.co/QjFAIQzIj5 pic.twitter.com/2VpBfRLl6d
- Greenhouse (@Greenhouse_PR) September 14, 2021

And no wonder they are worried! ⁦@ExtinctionR⁩ ⁦@BirdLife_News⁩ ⁦@WomenCleantech⁩ ⁦@ProjectDrawdown⁩ ⁦@NatureCanada⁩ https://t.co/z2Cfw7elWT
- Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) September 14, 2021

This follows our survey which also highlighted young people's concerns about climate change. We created resources to help - see our eco distress information for young people, please share if you know someone who might find it helpful. #RCPsychclimate https://t.co/MmzYGz8KOR https://t.co/qpJThSf93g
- Royal College of Psychiatrists (@rcpsych) September 14, 2021

L'écoanxiété est générationnelle.
Elle est le résultat du déni et de l'inaction climatique.
La souffrance de la jeunesse est aussi une capacité de révolte pour écrire un autre futur que celui d'une croissance sans limites et destructrice. https://t.co/VsdO0gZGaw
- Delphine Batho (@delphinebatho) September 14, 2021

🌍 Sad, angry or powerless. Over 50% young people felt like this when it comes to climate change and gov response.➡️ https://t.co/TBkj2yc6fD
We got it! #WeFeelThistoo
The future must be cleaner and more sustainable or it will simply cease to be.
We owe it to the next generations!
- Iratxe Garcia Perez/♥️ (@IratxeGarper) September 14, 2021

#WeFeelThisToo Shocking new research shows 75% of young people feel serious distress about the future linking to government inaction on climate change. Not only the young. I'm a pensioner & for my grandchildren I want government action, funds & resources to reduce emissions NOW.
- David Norton Murray (@davidnmurray) September 14, 2021

Can you imagine growing up terrified about your future and the adults around you seemingly not doing anything to help?

That's the position most of our kids are in.

Our kids NEED to see the adults they trust engaging in pushing for climate action.#WeFeelThisToo #ClimateAnxiety pic.twitter.com/tDkfQX1eqa
- Rowan Ryrie (@ForTheirFuture_) September 14, 2021

Distressing to hear the research that young people globally are so distressed by the #ClimateCrisis. They are not alone in this - many adults who see the reality are grieving too #WeFeelThisToo
- Mark NW (@AlstonVicar) September 14, 2021

Distressing to read research that young people globally are so distressed by the #ClimateCrisis. They are not alone #WeFeelThisToo

To help eco anxiety I spend time in nature.

What do others do? @RCPCHPresident @_katieknight_ @DrStaceyHarris https://t.co/r7LTu37R2k
- Rosie Spooner (@spooner_rosie) September 14, 2021

This year was the first time that I had chronic sleep problems, and after trying many things, I ultimately realized it was connected to my #ClimateAnxiety. Check out the launch of one of the largest studies on this, out tomorrow 👇🏾#WeFeelThisToo https://t.co/vZg5vt2lme
- Risalat Khan (@risalat_k) September 13, 2021

What can parents do if their children experience climate anxiety?

First of all, listen and validate their emotions #WeFeelThisToo

With empathy, compassion and kindness parents can offer support so that the fear does not cloud your children's heart or dominate their actions. pic.twitter.com/VF0vOrYOD4
- ParentsForFuture Global (@parents4futureG) September 14, 2021

As a mother of a 19 and 17-year old, I can attest to the real #climateanxiety young people feel and how hard it is to try to infuse hope into the darkness when they watch the world around them react callously to our shared climate emergency. As a parent #WeFeelThisToo
- Eve Frankel (@EveFrankel1) September 13, 2021

Según una encuesta global publicada hoy, el 7⃣5⃣% de los jóvenes tiene miedo del futuro a causa del #CambioClimático. Y el riesgo de que sufran problemas de salud física y mental también está aumentand📈debido al estrés crónico que padecen por este tema👇. https://t.co/mkUILWaeWW
- César Luena / ❤️🇪🇺 (@cesarluena) September 14, 2021

Really important piece of research on climate change's impact on young people's mental health:
* 60% feel very worried
* 45% said feelings about the climate affect their daily lives
Strong evidence base to push for more successful legal cases. https://t.co/TmCyY9yoxZ@Avaaz
- Sam Barratt (@samdbarratt) September 14, 2021

Young people all over the world are well aware that the people in power are failing us.
Greta Thunberg
Climate Activist

(...) we must open our eyes to the violence of global warming; on its impact on our planet, but also on the mental health of our youth, as this alarming study shows.
Francois Hollande
President of France 2012-2017
and one of the architects of the COP21 Climate agreement

As this research makes clear, the climate crisis is taking a huge toll on the mental health of children. It is absolutely critical that we take on board the growing body of evidence on the impacts of the climate crisis on human health. We have no choice but to rapidly decarbonize our economies and societies.
Inger Andersen
Executive Director
UN Environment Programme

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THE HUMAN IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE - RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

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Classroom activities for ages 9-11

Engaging and thought-provoking activities to bring climate justice into the classroom.

Use stories, pictures, film and role play to investigate the human element of the climate crisis.

Curricular links include Citizenship, English/Literacy, Geography and PSHE.

Teaching about climate justice

Climate change is threatening humankind and pushing people into poverty. While the climate crisis is affecting us all, it's hitting some communities harder than others - and it's the people who've done the least to cause it who're suffering the most. Who you are and where you are in the world matters.

Elizabeth Stevens/Oxfam America

RESOURCE AIMS

Investigate the links between climate change and human rights.

Develop understanding of the unequal impacts of the climate crisis: why who you are and where you are in the world matters.

Explore how communities around the world are being affected by climate change, and how people are responding and adapting to these challenges.

Build empathy and promote critical thinking, debate, and discussion.

TEACHER GUIDE

Resource outline, curriculum links and background information about climate justice.

Baseline activities

Track changes in learners' understanding, values and attitudes.

Session 1 - Climate Connections

Use the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals to investigate the links between climate change and human rights.

SESSION 2 - CLIMATE CHANGE CONSEQUENCES

Use a consequences wheel to make inferences about the human impacts of the climate crisis.

SESSION 3 - THINKING ABOUT IDENTITIES

Think about the overlapping identities that make up each one of us. Consider how these can affect how we are treated and interact with the world.

SESSION 4 - THE CLIMATE GAME

Play a climate game to learn more about how different inequalities might intersect to affect people's experiences of climate change.

SESSION 5 - CLIMATE CHANGE STORIES

Use stories and role play to investigate how some communities around the world are being affected by and adapting to climate change.

SLIDESHOW

For use alongside some of the activities.

FILM FOR USE IN SESSION 2

LEARN-THINK-ACT

Our climate action guide has practical advice, classroom activities and helpful planning tools to inspire young people to make change happen.

Banner image: Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti founded the Green Generation Initiative in Kenya in 2016 as a way to get more young people interested in climate action and the environment. Part of their work is to 'green' schools in Kenya by planting trees. They have planted more than 30,000 trees so far! This project is funded by the European Union.

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A confession: climate anxiety or its sister, climate doom, hits me roughly once a fortnight. It starts with a jittery sense that knots my stomach. Then it winds upwards, wrapping my heart tight, curdling my throat and setting my mind racing. After enough times, knotty sensations and thinking wear you down, no matter what sets it off. I can chalk up this year's anguish to working in environmental campaigning. But fear and frustration about the climate crisis were visitors before then - and not only for me.

Most of us feel some worry about the climate crisis. 84% of young people worldwide say they feel worried about climate change. The 2021 census reports that 75% of adults in Britain are worried about the impact of climate change.

It's not surprising that we're feeling distressed. The climate crisis poses a huge threat to life and those with power seem slow to act. For people facing the impacts already, the climate crisis is here and now. Fear, sadness and anger are natural emotional responses. But they can make you feel isolated and powerless. Climate anxiety may overwhelm us and stop us from doing something that can help: taking action together.

Releasing the grip of climate anxiety isn't always easy. Finding what works for you might take some trial and error. To get us going, I asked Greenpeace staff for tips and resources for managing climate anxiety.

Places to talk with others

If you want to talk openly about climate change, then consider signing up for a climate cafe. They're a real or virtual space to talk about the crisis over a cup of tea.

Laura in Greenpeace's outreach team joined one recently:

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Climate anxiety: 21 resources to energise you into action

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Releasing the grip of climate anxiety isn't easy. We asked Greenpeace staff what helps them navigate their worries and turn them into action.

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Friends of the Earth resource with sections on what is climate anxiety, how it effects us and how we can tackle it.

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What's eco-anxiety?

From fires in Australia to floods in Indonesia, it's no wonder many of us are feeling more than a little on edge about the environment.

Eco-anxiety describes the negative feelings - including stress, fear, anger and grief - many of us have about climate breakdown, nature loss and the future of our planet. Despite emerging recently as a term, its impact is widespread, with two-thirds of Brits worried about the climate crisis.

How eco-anxiety affects us

Feelings of stress and fear about the future of our planet affect people from all walks of life.

We asked 5 nature-loving actors to share their concerns about the planet, and how they're finding ways to cope.

A psychotherapist's advice on eco-anxiety

In episode 5 of our podcast, Climate Campaigner Muna talks to psychotherapist Caroline Hickman, journalist Emma Beddington and Friends of the Earth Producer Isobel about eco-anxiety, how to deal with stressful feelings, and why feelings of despair might actually be a good thing. For you, and the planet.

Take back tomorrow

It can sometimes feel as if the "big things" (like climate breakdown) are out of our control - that the future is out of our hands.

But that's not true.

Alongside individual lifestyle changes, taking action in our communities makes us part of a powerful movement working together to protect the planet.

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Eco-anxiety How to turn fear into hope | Friends of the Earth

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What's eco-anxiety? And what can we do to overcome feelings of despair around the climate emergency? Listen to the podcast, watch the video and find the solutions. Together, we can take back tomorrow.

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This webinar was hosted by the EIS. 1hr 30 mins run time.

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Using drama and outdoor learning to help young people visualise a positive future.

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Positive Imaginings - Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education

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Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education Positive Imaginings

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Bats Wood at Levenmouth Academy - a climate calming measure.

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Bats Wood at Levenmouth Academy - a climate calming measure.

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Taking action for climate and biodiversity. You can visit the project website here

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Levenmouth Academy introducing Bats Wood

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Climate Ready School Grounds explores using school grounds to address the impacts of climate change whilst creating outdoor environments that support learning and play.

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Climate Ready School Grounds explores using school grounds to address the impacts of climate change whilst creating outdoor environments that support learning and play. The project offers a suite of resources to help schools, local authorities, and design professionals create climate ready school grounds.

If you are a teacher or educator, stay on this page to view and download resources to support you in planning and implementing changes to your school grounds. If you are a landscape architect, designer, or local authority, please visit the Architecture & Design Scotland website to find appropriate resources to support you in creating and adapting school grounds to be more climate ready.

Learn more about the Climate Ready School Grounds project below, or use the buttons to navigate to the educational resources, guidance on technical areas, and case studies.

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Climate Ready School Grounds - Learning through Landscapes

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Climate Ready School Grounds takes a collaborative approach to designing and creating outdoor spaces to tackle climate change in Scotland.

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Young artists picture what the future could look like, with green technologies, shared spaces, less pollution.

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At GAP that's exactly what we're doing. Through we are harnessing the Solarpunk style of some very talented young artists to picture what the future could look like, with green technologies, shared spaces, less pollution. Better for our planet, better for our communities, better for us. To make sure this incredible work is seen far and wide we welcome anyone and everyone to share our art collection, to imagine, to inspire, to motivate. Enjoy!
To download videos, just click on the three dots in the right-hand corner.

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Remain focussed, stay positive, keep imagining a more sustainable, healthier, equitable world.

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We are harnessing the Solarpunk style of some very talented artists to picture what the future could look like.

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Stop Climate Chaos Scotland is a coalition of over 60 member organisations, working together for positive action.

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Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

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Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

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Scottish Communities Climate Action Network & Transition Scotland Hub

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Scottish Communities Climate Action Network & Transition Scotland Hub

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NESCAN Climate Hub (for Aberdeen City & Shire)

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NESCAN Climate Hub (for Aberdeen City & Shire)

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Your go to information, education, & collaboration hub helping you to mitigate & adapt to climate change on a local level in the North East of Scotland

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Highlands and Islands Climate Hub (for Highland, Orkney & Shetland)

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Highlands and Islands Climate Hub (for Highland, Orkney & Shetland)

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The aim of the hub is to support community led climate action in the Highlands & Islands in all the stages it takes to design, develop and deliver a project. We can support existing community groups or help communities to form new groups. Connecting communities through new and existing networks and signposting to further support as needed. Even if you are not developing a specific climate action project we can help you with climate ready policies for your organisations and how to embed climate action in your work.

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Highlands & Islands Climate Hub - Community climate action in Scotland

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Supporting sustainable community led climate action projects in Scotland's Highlands and Islands.

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We want a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth's resources. From grassroots groups to the Scottish Parliament, we campaign for environmental...

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A young activist in the US who started a climate group in her university. (POC in the film stands for People of Colour).

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Climate Action in Ohio | Youth & Climate

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A young person originally from Australia and now in London has channelled her climate anxiety into setting up a charity to support more young people to take positive action.

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'How I turned my eco-anxiety into climate activism'

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Youth Activist Toolkit - a digital guide

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Youth Activist Toolkit - a digital guide

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Fridays For Future is an international climate movement active in most countries and our website offers information on who we are and what you can do.

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#FridaysForFuture is a youth-led and -organised global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when [then] 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. To begin with, she was alone, but she was soon joined by others…

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6 young people taking legal action on climate - Portugal

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6 young people taking legal action on climate - Portugal

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Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court

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They claim governments’ slow action on climate change violates their human rights.

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This video encourages students to think about what they feel most passionate, and shows how small actions can create a chain reaction leading to BIG impact.

Distance learning, Introducing the Global Goals, Parents, Videos

Health and Education, Poverty and Inequality

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World's Largest Lesson Animation: Part 3 | The World's Largest Lesson

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5 reasons for hope from Greenpeace.

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Feeling climate anxiety? Here are five reasons for hope | Greenpeace UK

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If you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis, here's a handy tip. Focus on the little victories and the small steps forward - like these recent reasons for celebration.

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The Re-Earth Initiative recognizes that climate change threatens every part of the planet. It's a global problem that requires intercountry, intersectional, and intergenerational cooperation.

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1 minute video on a young climate activist

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Goalkeepers 2022 Campaign Award Winner: Vanessa Nakate

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The Climate Emergency - Overview and Key Facts 

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The Climate Emergency - Overview and Key Facts 

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A comprehensive and fact-checked report on the relevant issues from Extinction Rebellion scientists.

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Emergency on Planet Earth – Overview & Key Facts

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3 minute video on Ridhima Pandey, from Haridwar, India, a young environmental activist who advocates for action against climate change. She lodged a petition against her government in India as well as against Argentina, Turkey, Germany, France and Brazil for not doing enough to stop Climate Change.

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Find out more about our climate and how it's changing

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Climate change refers to a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet's weather patterns and average temperatures.

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The administration of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has boosted coal mining and coal power since 2014.

Carbon Brief published an interactive piece analysing the impact on Indian communities and climate change, as well how this year's general election could change things.

The map shows that India's coal reserves are concentrated in seven south-central and eastern states, regions that have significant Indigenous populations.

Indigenous peoples and local communities told Carbon Brief that they have been displaced and suffered environmental impacts as a result of coal mining projects.

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Carbon Brief covers climate science, energy and policy, specialising in clear, data-driven articles to improve the understanding of climate change.

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Climate Response - Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters

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Climate Response - Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters

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The purpose of this lesson is to support young people to be able to respond confidently to the climate emergency and in a way that makes sense to them.

We share our thinking about the ways in which everyone can choose to respond to the current situation - whether they see themselves as Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters or all of the above.

Key information

1 hour lesson but could be easily adjusted and delivered as an assembly

Suitable for upper KS2, KS3 and KS4

Focus on Citizenship, Science and Geography

Outcomes and Curriculum links

This lesson enables students to:

Explain the causes of climate change and the need to take action.

Discuss ways in which they can respond confidently to the climate emergency

Describe ways in which we can join together to demand that governments act decisively and quickly to address the climate emergency.

This lesson links to themes from the following subject areas:

Subjects

To set up the lesson you will need:

Lesson plan

PowerPoint presentation. You might want to edit slides 7 - 12 to match the colours of the wool/ribbons/stickers below

Internet link and audio (ideally, but not essential)

Post-its and pens

4 different coloured wool/ ribbons / stickers (twice as many as you have people in the audience/class)

Card sort - Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters

Downloads

Lesson plan

References

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Lesson plan: Climate Response - Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters

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Sections 1 and 2 provide resources to support your professional understanding of the climate emergency and climate anxiety, including statistics and research plus videos of young people and experts in climate psychology.

Section 3 includes inspiring case studies of young people taking action on climate issues which can be used in the classroom to encourage a hopeful vision for the future.

Sections 4-6 includes a selection of Primary and Secondary Global Citizenship resources for exploring the climate emergency and supporting pupil-led action.

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Climate Anxiety: An Introduction for Teachers

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Climate Anxiety: An Introduction for Teachers

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A Fair Future Episode 4 – Taking Action for a Fairer Future

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A Fair Future Episode 4 – Taking Action for a Fairer Future

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This film, specifically looking at taking action, comes from a suite of good films and resources from Fairtrade Foundation.

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A Fair Future Episode 4 - Taking Action for a Fairer Future

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The climate crisis isn’t fair, but we together we can take action for a fairer future. This episode introduces young people to the concept of systems thinking and the collective power we all have to make big changes to our way of life.

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We believe that young people deserve to learn about the causes, impacts and solutions to the climate crisis.

'Climate justice, hope and action' is a set of free KS3 teaching resources which supports a diverse curriculum, and aims to empower students and develop critical thinking.

Topics include:

the current climate and biodiversity crisis

climate injustice

solutions to the climate crisis

eco-anxiety

Our lesson plans and resources below are directly linked to the National Curriculum in England and in Northern Ireland. They also support the curriculum in Wales.

Lesson plans

We've got everything you need to bring the climate conversation to your classroom.

We've split up our KS3 climate resources into six handy topic areas and they cover a range of subjects: Art, Drama, English, Geography, History, PSHE, Religious studies, Science and Technology.

Lessons are designed to be delivered as a one-off, as a series of cross-curricula learning, or as a full school Environment Week.

Download KS3 climate resources

Every section includes a detailed lesson plan, a downloadable PowerPoint to use in class and handouts/resources to print. Our 'Preparatory thinking and grounding activities' section details some wellbeing and support activities that we would strongly suggest all pupils do before embarking on the programme.

Putting wellbeing first

Our programme includes support for students and teachers to work through eco-anxiety, and to approach the challenges we face with Active Hope.

Active Hope is all about finding, and offering, our best response to global issues in this time of unfolding crisis. It offers tools so that we can collectively transition towards a society that supports life to flourish.

We're indebted to the work of Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy on Active Hope which has inspired much of this resource.

We'd love your feedback on 'Climate justice, hope and action'. Use #ClimateClass on social media or email us: [email protected]

Further reading

If you'd like to boost your background knowledge about some of the topics covered in these lessons, head over to our educators' reading list for some general and lesson-specific info and resources.

Inspired?

After teaching climate related topics, why not take the next step. Take a look at our Schools' Climate Action Plan, which gives you and your students the tools to take climate action in your school or college.

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KS3 resources Climate Justice, hope and action | Friends of the Earth

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Cross-curricular climate resources for teachers teaching KS3 children across a broad range of subjects. Whether you're wanting to do a one-off class or a week-long set of lessons, we've got you covered. Download our comprehensive lesson packs which include PowerPoints, handouts, and lesson plans.

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In this 5 minute video, young people from around the world share their experiences of climate anxiety

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Climate Anxiety Around the World | Seat At The Table

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Why Climate Anxiety is Normal, Healthy and Rational: Advice from Two Climate Psychology Experts

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Why Climate Anxiety is Normal, Healthy and Rational: Advice from Two Climate Psychology Experts

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Why Climate Anxiety is Normal, Healthy and Rational: Advice from Two Climate Psychology Experts

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A fantastic bank of images. These can be used alongside the using images activity sheet below.

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This sheet provides a range of activities which use images to develop critical thinking skills

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A STEM Resource, looking at positive approaches to issues of transport, food, recycling, etc. You will need to sign up here to get the full resource set.

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This BBC news report tells the story of two climate activists coming to terms with their anxiety.

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Until two years ago Jennifer Newall was working at the forefront of climate change research.

Her PhD on melting ice sheets and changing sea levels had taken her to Antarctica, Scandinavia and the USA but it was while leading a workshop for primary school children in Glasgow that she began to question what she was doing.

"It dawned on me," she says. "The physics behind this haven't changed in my lifetime. They're not going to change going forward."

Jennifer says she realised action was needed urgently and she no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying the effects.

She put her career on hold in order to take more direct action but she found the scale of the challenge overwhelming.

Jennifer is one of a growing number of people who have experienced "eco-anxiety" - a chronic sense of hopelessness and fear of environmental doom.

"It presented itself as depression and anxiety," she says. She felt completely paralysed and often unable to get out of bed.

It was during what she describes as her "eco-grief" that 33-year-old Jennifer decided she could not have children.

She says: "I don't feel like I can have children, because a) the world can't cope and b) I would feel guilty bringing any child into this world."

Jennifer didn't complete her PhD on the disappearing ice sheets - although she hopes to one day return to it.

She is now living in Perthshire with her mother and has found that mountain biking has helped her achieve some peace of mind.

Jennifer says she plans to set up a social enterprise project in Aberfeldy, called Soulful Adventures In Nature (Sain), to help people improve their mental health through outdoor activities.

She accepts that the climate situation will worsen - but has learned not to feel personal guilt for the circumstances.

"I had the sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. But, thankfully I chose to keep fighting to change that, and have a world that I do want to be a part of," she says.

There is a growing recognition that environmental change affects not just physical but also mental health - although there is still relatively little research into the cognitive impact of it.

In 2021, Bath University lecturer, psychotherapist and researcher Caroline Hickman and her colleagues examined data from 10,000 young people, aged 16 to 25, living in 10 different countries.

About half of those who took part in the survey reported feeling sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless or guilty.

The study, published in Lancet Planetary Health, found that while threats faced in different countries varied - from food insecurity to pollution or flooding - there were similar levels of anxiety.

"Over half think humanity is doomed, 56% worldwide, 51% in the UK, 73% in the Philippines," Ms Hickman says.

"So there's more closeness in relationship. Being at a distance from it physically doesn't protect you from the emotional and cognitive impact."

Ms Hickman believes that having an emotional response is good and that people should be concerned about the climate crisis.

"It's healthy to be depressed, to feel grief, rage about this," she says.

However, she says it is important not to get overwhelmed with these feelings.

Dr Bridget Bradley, a lecturer in social anthropology at St Andrews University, is another academic who has has been looking at eco-anxiety.

Her research asks whether this is a new and emerging mental health label and how it can affect family relationships.

Her first small-scale pilot study, in 2021, found it was not just young people who were affected, but also older activists who struggled to get their children or grandchildren to understand.

Her interest in eco-anxiety came partly from her own experience after the birth of her son.

"I was already quite aware of environmental issues and concerns, but having a child just made all of that explode in ways that I wasn't prepared for," she says.

Student Kyle Downie, 22, was an avid climate activist but had to take a break from campaigning due to his mental health. He is now on anti-depressants.

His mental health started to worsen in March last year and while eco-anxiety was not the only cause, he believes it was a factor.

"It wasn't because of eco-anxiety - but I think the eco-anxiety played a big part in being diagnosed with depression," he says.

"I think that's probably the case for a lot of people. Just because that feeling of hopelessness is always there, so it leads to depression."

In 2021, he was heavily involved in COP26 and was a part of The Resilience Project, a group who help young people become more resilient to the climate emergency.

He was trained to run an eight-week support programme for other young people around eco-anxiety.

Kyle has also been part of the Fridays for Future protest movement but when he faced burnout, he knew it was time to step away.

Although being surrounded by fellow activists helped him, it wasn't enough to stop him from feeling exhausted.

"When I get burnout, it's usually if I've been throwing myself into activism, not taking enough me time and then it feels very hopeless." he says.

Kyle feels that there isn't any point in continuing his degree, if there is no hope for the future.

He comes from a big family and had previously thought he would want children, but like Jennifer he has now decided he doesn't.

"It's completely changed my thoughts on that from where, I really did want kids, to now I don't because I'd feel too guilty bringing them into a world that is so bleak," he says.

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Climate change is harming my mental health

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A former climate scientist is among a growing number of people overwhelmed by "eco-anxiety".

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NYCI Resource for Global Educators, Youth Workers, Development Education practitioners, trainers, climate activists and changemakers of all shapes

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Deeper Understanding - Climate and Emotions

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Deeper Understanding - Climate and Emotions

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A series of Met Office Resources which explore emotions around climate, understanding future climate modelling and taking a 'Philosophy for Children' approach. Will download direct to your computer.

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How to declare a Climate Emergency at Your School. The experiences of Morpeth School in London with templates and ideas for implementing.