Climate change and the long walk back to ourselves

The author believes climate change will affect peoples mental health
The author believes climate change will affect peoples mental health

The taps will run dry, new diseases will reach our shores and the weather will run an increasingly unpredictable gambit.

This is what you likely have heard of the future in the era of climate change. But did you know the climate change will also have a profound impact on your mental wellbeing?

For millennia, people have grown from and in relation to their more-than-human world. For most of our history, we all carried an intimate understanding of the seasons, planting according to the rains, sun and soil of the places we called home. As hunters, we understood the habits of the animals who lived alongside us. And, as gatherers, we came to be awed by the diversity of plants and their many uses.

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