Waqas In May is mental health awareness month. As we raise awareness and support for mental well-being, let’s also acknowledge the incredible resilience of those in the Mediterranean region, where an intensifying wave of extreme weather events and heightening existing climate instability challenge their communities daily. This escalating crisis forces local residents to summon remarkable psychological resilience, not only to rebuild but also to adapt to an increasingly unpredictable reality.
“Planetary health and mental health are so inextricably linked” explained climate change and health policy fellow Jessica Newberry Le Vay. Ecological grief, she added, is experienced most intensely by children and land workers who witness first-hand the changes in the landscape around them.
FairPlanet author Francesca Pamela Norrington talked to Thanos Giannakakis, Nature-Based Solutions Coordinator at @WWF Greece to find out more.
Full story below.
https://www.fairplanet.org/story/what-is-ecological-grief-and-how-can-we-deal-with-it/
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