By Georgina Ramsay, Gareth Morgan and Lauren McGregor (University of Leicester), The Conversation: The framework was useful in highlighting how people experience a range of meanings and emotions in relation to the climate crisis, such as guilt, responsibility, alienation, despair, grief, powerlessness, anger, hopelessness and hopefulness. We regarded all these different responses as understandable in the context of the climate crisis and its dismissal by others in participants' lives. Some of the most useful questions related to social power - participants told us that differences in social standing impacted on their sense of being heard and included when discussing climate change, and that their experiences were shaped by negative media coverage of climate activism and societal messages that dismissed the issues they were trying to draw attention to.
Why anger, anxiety and anguish are understandable psychological reactions to the climate crisis
By Georgina Ramsay, Gareth Morgan and Lauren McGregor (University of Leicester), The Conversation: The framework was useful in highlighting how people experience a range of meanings and emotions in relation to the climate crisis, such as guilt, responsibility, alienation, despair, grief, powerlessness, anger, hopelessness and hopefulness. We regarded all these different responses as understandable in the context of the climate crisis and its dismissal by others in participants' lives. Some of the most useful questions related to social power - participants told us that differences in social standing impacted on their sense of being heard and included when discussing climate change, and that their experiences were shaped by negative media coverage of climate activism and societal messages that dismissed the issues they were trying to draw attention to.
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