It’s trauma, actually.

Jul 2, 2021

It’s trauma, actually. Climate Trauma - a grievous wounding of a living planet whose biome we happen to inhabit. Are you feeling it?

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Written by Tom Woodbury

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Communications Director for Buffalo Field Campaign, ecopsychologist/author, M.A., J.D.

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Oct 29, 2022

Yes. MadRobin

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Jul 4, 2021

I think trauma and grief are what we as concerned citizens go through. Global warming is so much worse than that to the planet and the creatures with whom we share it. There's an excellent article about ecological grief here…

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