How to address the mental health fallout of climate change
An existential crisis
On August 9, the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report made public what many had feared. Global temperature warming to 1.5 C is all but inevitable by 2040 — even by the most optimistic scenarios — unless radically drastic steps are taken to end the use of fossil fuels.
Severe weather events such as California wildfires and Atlantic hurricanes of the past …


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