In this interview with Charles Ogunbode, psychotherapeutic counsellor Yasmin Kapadia discusses how eco-anxiety manifests differently across communities and social groups, arguing that a genuinely global response to the climate crisis cannot ignore differences in responsibility and impact between people. Kapadia reflects on her own experience of eco-anxiety leading her to join the Climate Psychology Alliance, and discusses how ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the UK environmental sector despite disproportionate exposure to climate harms such as air pollution. She argues that some communities with long histories of navigating existential crisis may express climate concern differently to dominant narratives of panic, and that these narratives need space and amplification within the environmental movement rather than being drowned out by more visible, privileged voices.
Talking eco-anxiety with Yasmin Kapadia: Are we all equally affected?
In this interview with Charles Ogunbode, psychotherapeutic counsellor Yasmin Kapadia discusses how eco-anxiety manifests differently across communities and social groups, arguing that a genuinely global response to the climate crisis cannot ignore differences in responsibility and impact between people. Kapadia reflects on her own experience of eco-anxiety leading her to join the Climate Psychology Alliance, and discusses how ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the UK environmental sector despite disproportionate exposure to climate harms such as air pollution. She argues that some communities with long histories of navigating existential crisis may express climate concern differently to dominant narratives of panic, and that these narratives need space and amplification within the environmental movement rather than being drowned out by more visible, privileged voices.
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