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Climate Anxiety Can Feel Like ‘There’s No Safe Harbor’
Bloomberg Green asked readers and other members of the public how global warming is impacting their mental health. Their answers covered a range of emotions — and solutions.
A shrimp boat sits damaged at a dock after Hurricane Delta made landfall in Hackberry, Louisiana in October 2020.
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For Tom Spencer, there was a moment where his feelings about climate change tipped over from something remote and abstract into real anxiety. The 35-year-old Brit had spent years working in PR in the electric motorsport sector. When he moved to Ireland in 2018, he found himself confronting a flood of misinformation about electric vehicles.