It’s safe to say over the past few years we’ve all awoken to the need for a different lifestyle, not just for the environment, but for our own mental and physical wellbeing. But with all the information out there about what to do, it can be overwhelming and lead us to hide our heads under the sand (or under the covers with Netflix).
In the face of our current climate crisis, a lot of people have developed what is known as eco-anxiety. Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden, posed the question in her book “ [is] there a danger that, as people wise up to ecocide and how human activity is wiping out other species, the guilt will be so paralysing and extreme that it could lead to mental health problems or widespread spiritual sickness?”
What we know for sure is that it can often feel very overwhelming to want to make lifestyle shifts, and the limiting thought that “my individual actions will never be enough” are all too common. However, we need to remember that our small everyday changes can amount to wider and greater change.
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