As co-chairs of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA), we applaud the scientists' courage in speaking out. Climate scientists are frontline emergency workers in need of support.
Being alone with difficult feelings and believing that they are denied by others makes them even harder to bear. This is also a result of something that affects us all: socially constructed silence, an unspoken shared silencing of what we don't want to know.
Listening circles with a climate focus and climate-aware therapy should be much more widely available. We need a change in culture that allows scientists, conservationists and climate journalists to accept and prioritise support.
As social beings, for us to act on this emergency we need to be able to talk about it and know that we are part of a collective and talking about it requires psychological safety.
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