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Posted on 10/21/2025 4:18:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two new studies are helping to shed light on the extent Canadians feel climate change is impacting their mental health.
A national study published today suggests about 2.3 per cent of people in Canada experience climate change anxiety at a level the authors considered “clinically relevant,” causing meaningful distress and disruption in their lives.
The severe manifestation of climate anxiety was more common among people who had directly experienced climate change impacts.
The study suggests Indigenous people had the highest prevalence of severe climate anxiety of any group, at almost 10 per cent.
The paper suggests that number could reflect the disproportionate climate impacts Indigenous communities face due to wildfires, declining sea ice and warmer winters, as well as the heightened importance of the link between human and planetary health in Indigenous worldviews.
A second peer-reviewed study, published late last month and authored by a different group of researchers, found 37 per cent of Canadian teens who responded to a survey said they felt climate change was impacting their mental health.
Climate anxiety is a piece of that larger puzzle. It often refers to the heightened distress a person feels about the impending threat of climate change. Those fears may be rooted in a direct experience with extreme weather or exposure to climate change messages.
Feeling worried or fearful about climate change is not a cause for concern and, to some researchers, is even a healthy response to the scale of the crisis that can engender action to help solve it. But for some people, severe manifestations of climate change anxiety can start to disrupt daily life and mirror symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, such as obsessive thinking, dread, the inability to concentrate and nightmares.
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If global warming was really a thing, it would open up lots of frozen land in Canada for use and settlement.
About 7/8 of Canada is frozen wasteland.
Ah leftist climate anxious Canadians....in other words morons.
The hilarious part is that a few degrees of glow-bull warming would open up vastly more Canadian farmland for growing wheat, grains, soy beans, rape seed (canola oil is made from this)
As “common” as complete stupidity.
Agreed. Also, global warming in the past (Medieval Warm Period) is how Leif Erickson discovered Newfoundland. Canada’s history is a reminder that the warming and cooling periods occur in cycles, and, as you pointed out, the warming periods are the good times to be alive. You’d think Canadians of all people would embrace the Modern Warm Period.
Give me global warning.
Less snow, longer growing seasons, and lower heating bills.
What’s not to like?
Maybe, they will stop flying to AZ for winter?
Climate change anxiety is not as common as TDS?!
Maybe. The US is now fingerprinting and taking photos of Canadians who intend to stay longer than 30 days now and charging $30 for that as well. :)
Reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials. You have a group of people that are entirely brainwashed, believing something that does not exist is out to kill them. That’s why scam artist like Michael “Piltdown” Mann should be rotting in prison for his “science” crimes. Real people have committed suicide because of Mann’s claims, such that they believed the world was coming to and end.
Make Canadian wine great again!
We have “climate change” daily....
It’s to be 78 degrees here today and tomorrow it’s to be 70 degrees...
CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!
Having been born and raised in Canada, these many years later I find my former countrymen incurably neurotic. Half a century ago, the men were strong, independent and adventurous.Great rock bands too!
I wonder if the neurotically anxious are being offered MAiD to relieve their suffering? /s
It was un noted that 93% or the 2.3% live in Ontario
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Or Florida.
Anxiety ocer whether they will live long enough to see Florida type climate finally reach the Great White North
Normally I’d object on moral principles, but in such a severe disorder I can support it.
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