How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Eco-Apocalypse: An Existential Approach to Accepting Eco-Anxiety

Guthrie, Devin

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“…The last feature mentions continuing despair and dread, originally added to the list by Jones and Beck via a study of death row inmates and their close ones [126], and these kinds of difficult feelings have often been discussed by ecological grief and anxiety scholars (e.g., [128], for a review, see [32]). Since mortality and fear of death have been explicitly discussed as being related to eco-anxiety and ecological grief by many scholars (e.g., [129][130][131]), there may be even deeper links between the dynamics explored by Jones and Beck and these eco-emotions.…”

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2024

Sustainability

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Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between general grief research and ecological grief has received surprisingly little attention. This interdisciplinary article applies theories of grief, loss, and bereavement to ecological grief. Special attention is given to research on “non-death loss” and other broad frameworks of grief. The dynamics related to both local and global ecological grief are discussed. The kinds of potential losses arising from ecological issues are clarified using the frameworks of tangible/intangible loss, ambiguous loss, nonfinite loss and shattered assumptions. Various possible types of ecological grief are illuminated by discussing the frameworks of chronic sorrow and anticipatory grief/mourning. Earlier scholarship on disenfranchised ecological grief is augmented by further distinctions of the various forms it may take. The difficulties in defining complicated or prolonged grief in an ecological context are discussed, and four types of “complicated ecological grief” are explored. On the basis of the findings, three special forms of ecological loss and grief are identified and discussed: transitional loss and grief, lifeworld loss and shattered dreams. The implications of the results for ecological grief scholarship, counselling and coping are briefly discussed. The results can be used by psychological and healthcare professionals and researchers but also by members of the public who wish to reflect on their eco-emotions. They also have implications for policy makers.

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2024

Sustainability

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“…Anxiety is increasingly linked to environmental issues, as evident in phrases such as eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, and others [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]130]. As such, it is important that the academic discussions cover disabled people under these terms with a focus on environmentbased social stressors that might add to the environment-based anxiety.…”

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“…Anxiety is increasingly linked in academic and non-academic discussions to natural environmental issues, as evident in phrases such as eco-anxiety and climate anxiety [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. It is important that disabled people are covered under these terms, as disabled people disproportionally experience nature-based social stressors [64,65], which could lead to anxiety.…”

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Academic Coverage of Social Stressors Experienced by Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Escobedo

2023

Societies

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Social stress can be caused by many factors. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) highlights many social stressors disabled people experience in their daily lives. How social stressors experienced by disabled people are discussed in the academic literature and what data are generated influence social-stressor related policies, education, and research. Therefore, the aim of our study was to better understand the academic coverage of social stressors experienced by disabled people. We performed a scoping review study of academic abstracts employing SCOPUS, the 70 databases of EBSCO-HOST and Web of Science, and a directed qualitative content analysis to achieve our aim. Using many different search strategies, we found few to no abstracts covering social stressors experienced by disabled people. Of the 1809 abstracts obtained using various stress-related phrases and disability terms, we found a bias towards covering disabled people as stressors for others. Seventeen abstracts mentioned social stressors experienced by disabled people. Fourteen abstracts flagged “disability” as the stressor. No abstract contained stress phrases specific to social stressors disabled people experience, such as “disablism stress*” or “ableism stress*”. Of the abstracts containing equity, diversity, and inclusion phrases and policy frameworks, only one was relevant, and none of the abstracts covering emergency and disaster discussions, stress-identifying technologies, or science and technology governance were relevant. Anxiety is one consequence of social stressors. We found no abstract that contained anxiety phrases that are specific to social stressors disabled people experience, such as “ableism anxiety”, “disablism anxiety” or “disability anxiety”. Within the 1809 abstract, only one stated that a social stressor is a cause of anxiety. Finally, of the abstracts that contained anxiety phrases linked to a changing natural environment, such as “climate anxiety”, none were relevant. Our study found many gaps in the academic literature that should be fixed and with that highlights many opportunities.

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“…Since mortality and fear of death have been explicitly discussed as related to eco-anxiety and ecological grief by many scholars e.g. [128][129][130], there may be even deeper links between the dynamics explored by Jones and Beck and these eco-emotions.…”

Section: Examples Of Similar Dynamics In Eco-mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2023

Preprint

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Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between general grief research and ecological grief has received surprisingly little attention. This interdisciplinary article applies theories of grief, loss, and bereavement to ecological grief. Special attention is given to research about “non-death loss” and other broad frameworks about grief. Dynamics related to both local and global ecological grief are discussed. Kinds of potential losses arising out of ecological issues are clarified with the frameworks of tangible/intangible loss, ambiguous loss, nonfinite loss, and shattered assumptions. Various possible types of ecological grief are illuminated by discussing the frameworks of chronic sorrow and anticipatory grief/mourning. Earlier scholarship about disenfranchised ecological grief is augmented by further distinctions about various forms it may take. The difficulties in defining complicated or prolonged grief in ecological context are discussed, and four types of “complicated ecological grief” are explored. Based on the findings, three special forms of ecological loss and grief are named and discussed: transitional loss and grief, lifeworld loss, and shattered dreams. The implications of the results for ecological grief scholarship, counselling and coping are briefly discussed. The results can be used by psychological and healthcare professionals and researchers, but also by members of the public who wish to reflect on their eco-emotions.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Eco-Apocalypse: An Existential Approach to Accepting Eco-Anxiety

Cited by 9 publications

References 127 publications

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Academic Coverage of Social Stressors Experienced by Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

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