From climate anxiety to climate hope

Rather than worrying about climate change, we must shift our focus to climate friendly practices.

Climate change research and media coverage these days present inescapable doomsday pictures. July 22, 2024, marked the hottest recorded temperature in human history. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states that 3.6 billion people, or almost half of the global population, experience deaths and destruction from climate change. The World Health Organisation projects around 250,000 deaths each year between 2030-2050 from undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress triggered by climate change. These statistics are worrisome, and by many accounts, we live in an age of climate anxiety. But how much should we worry?