{"id":14982,"date":"2022-05-16T23:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/?p=14982"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:08:16","slug":"painful-words-around-eco-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/painful-words-around-eco-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Painful words around eco-sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently global media\u2019s attention put aside climate change, due to COVID-19 pandemic, but at the same time phycological community gives us a very worrying scenario.\u00a0(Mental Disorders in Paintings: Dysmorphia in Picasso\u2019s Art) <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

In 1950 from the Ray Bradbury dystopian pen, Benjamin Driscoll had already found which potentiality would have had trees for human\u2019s equilibrium. As a matter of fact, they \u201c<\/span>add colour, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children\u2019s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure<\/span><\/i>\u201d; he realized their primary importance so he felt like a new John Appelead with a paradoxical mission: creating a new ecosystem in Mars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From Ray Bradbury, it was McEwan, Ballard or Atwood\u2019s turn and we can go on further and further if we mention in addition <\/span>climate fiction<\/b>, a brand new literature genre based on climate changing contents. According to most book critics it\u2019s a kind of literature that could have an influence on humans\u2019 eco sustainable behaviors. Despite these considerable literary efforts, it seems that humans – and, above all, new generations – don\u2019t envision a positive future<\/strong>: speaking of that Google timelapse about <\/span>Earth day<\/span><\/i>, on March 27th, was a vivid example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the latest scientific researches and findings, psychological vocabulary has significantly increased: since 2017, <\/span>American Psychological Association <\/i><\/b>has called <\/span>eco-anxiety <\/i><\/b>a general and \u201c<\/span>chronic fear of environmental cataclysm that comes from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change<\/i><\/strong>\u201d. To this fear APA associated psycho-physical symptoms like anxiety, stress or panic attacks and emotions like anger, depression and a sense of powerlessness; most people are also wondering about their future and plans, such as having babies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason a recent international study has dramatically highlighted how much young people are gripped by these anxiety and worries. This study<\/strong> was supported by a team of climate change, clinical and environmental psychology experts and it can be read on <\/span>Lancet Planetary Health <\/i><\/b>journal. 10000 young people, aged 16-25, from 10 different countries, were asked about their thoughts and feelings connected to climate change: if 60% of them were worried about the future, 45% said that their daily life has been badly influenced by those types of news<\/strong>. Moreover, \u201c<\/span>correlations indicated that climate anxiety and distress were significantly related to perceived inadequate government response and associated feelings of betrayal.<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This fear regards the future, but it has its roots now, because it arises in home environments, or, we could say, in order to defend home environments: <\/span>solastalgia<\/i><\/b>, a new word coined by Glenn Albrecht<\/strong>, is precisely a form of distress caused by climate change and natural disasters close to home. This is a portmanteau of latin <\/span>solacium<\/span><\/i> (solace) and greek <\/span>algia <\/span><\/i>(sorrow, pain).<\/span><\/p>\n

We could go on over and over mentioning <\/span>doomer, greentrolling, greenwashing, anthropause<\/span><\/i>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore what are we actually supposed to do?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It is no medical condition, though, it is a rational response to the state of the climate. If we label eco-axiety as an illness, climate denialists have won<\/span><\/i>\u201d said hopefully Graham Lawton<\/strong> from <\/span>New Scientist<\/span><\/i>: it is not a pathological disease<\/strong> or a mental illness such as panic attacks or depression, so the right response won\u2019t be found with medical methods, because it\u2019s a spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Possible solutions would be caring for the planet and adopting a more sustainable way of living<\/strong>, with a constant reduction of CO2 emissions; therefore a positive side is that a large amount of humans has more awareness of planet needs and the state of climate emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apparently global media\u2019s attention put aside climate change, due to COVID-19 pandemic, but at the same time phycological community gives us a very worrying scenario.\u00a0(Mental Disorders in Paintings: Dysmorphia in Picasso\u2019s Art) In 1950 from the Ray Bradbury dystopian pen, Benjamin Driscoll had already found which potentiality would have had trees for human\u2019s equilibrium. As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,20],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-general","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14986,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982\/revisions\/14986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14982"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}