It sneaks up so fast: the mean internal voices. The scared thoughts. The impatient, insecure feelings. They are so good at hiding, in fact, that we often don’t realize they’re there until there is a moment when one slips out verbally on the tongue.

Many people living in the Western world have been shaped by predominantly individualistic values that view a person and their problems in isolation from other factors.

Climate anxiety, eco-anxiety and eco-grief are all phrases that help capture distressing emotions that more and more people report experiencing in response to threats to our ecology, particularly the reality of a changing climate.