climate anxiety – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Eklöf & Klöckner (2025) on “Helping young people cope with eco-anxiety: a qualitative intervention study”

mglessmer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:25:52 +0000

A lot of young people experience eco-anxiety (and old people, too, but they are not the focus of this study; but see here some numbers from Marlis’ recent talk). There are a lot of suggestions on how to cope with eco-anxiety (see the same blogpost, and also the models by Pikala, or the Hope Wheel, or […]

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Currently reading Finnegan & d’Abreu (2024) on “The hope wheel: a model to enable hope-based pedagogy in Climate Change Education”

mglessmer — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:10:44 +0000

We are discussing more and more about the importance of hope when talking about climate change and general sustainability questions, and I wrote about different approaches before (for example, Webb (2013)’s five types of hope, which are patient, critical, sound, resolute, and transformative hope, and Macy & Johnstone (2022)’s Active Hope). And now here is […]

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On the bigger mental health effects of being kind to others than to oneself (Currently reading Naclerio et al., 2025)

mglessmer — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:48:43 +0000

A very common advice, in my experience especially when we feel overworked, or struggle with climate anxiety, is that we should invest in some self-care, be kind to ourselves. Turns out, however, that this might not the best advice. In a study run during the pandemic, Naclerio et al. (2025) investigate three conditions: a control […]

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Currently reading Hill-Harding et al. (2025) on “Beyond symptomatic support: Students’ emotional experiences with climate change and how universities can help”

mglessmer — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:17:43 +0000

In a study of 869 students of the University of Glasgow, Hill-Harding et al. (2025) find high level of negative climate emotions: Powerlessness, helplessness, sadness, anger. Many also report impairment due to climate anxiety. When rating agreement with different statements, participants agreed strongly with statements like “People have failed to take care of the planet” […]

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Currently reading “Addressing students’ eco-anxiety when teaching sustainability in higher education” by Eriksson et al. (2022)

mglessmer — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:19:56 +0000

It is extremely common that we experience strong emotions around climate change and all the other crises in the world. Some or all of these emotions are likely to come up for out students, too — because of topics in the courses we teach, or because they are informed citizens, in our classes or outside. […]

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Pihkala (2022)’s Model for “The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief”

mglessmer — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:52:38 +0000

Today I found the model by Pihkala (2022) that I think can be helpful when thinking and talking about eco-anxiety (and that I, of course, had to recreate in order to fully think through — see above). There are three main phases that are run through one after the other: Before awareness of the problem, […]

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Reflections on the workshop “How to deal with climate anxiety as teachers and researchers?”

mglessmer — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:36:28 +0000

On Thursday, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the workshop “How to deal with climate anxiety as teachers and researchers?” co-organised by the Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG) at Lund University and the Research Group on Green Politics (REGROUP) at the University of Copenhagen, that brought together very interesting presentations, first on research […]

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