How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/world/europe/italy-greece-eco-anxiety.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Europe Dispatch After a summer of intense heat, raging fires and catastrophic floods, a term for pervading dread about climate change and other environmental crises is having its moment.
A wildfire burning last month near the towns of Alcamo and Partinico, in western Sicily
Italy was in the grip of extreme heat waves, hellish wildfires and biblical downpours, and a nerve-wracked young Italian woman wept as she stood in a theater to tell the country’s environment minister about her fears of a climatically apocalyptic future.
She doubted the sanity of bringing children into an infernal world and asked, “Aren’t you scared for your children, for your grandchildren?” Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like.