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The imaginative process of crafting fictional narratives about difficult topics comes with its own benefits – almost akin to therapy.
Carbon & Climate
Scrolling into stress: How climate fears hit youth
It is particularly important for emerging economies like Indonesia that has a large youth population to address the issue of eco-anxiety, often driven by a perceived lack of political will and action from those in power.
The comedy-drama film mirrors many psychological effects of climate change. It may also point a way forward, in acknowledging fundamental unfairness, loss and an inability to control the past.
There must be a balance between sufficient anxiety to promote positive and urgent change in people’s behaviour, and not so much as to create paralysis. How we communicate facts matters, these researchers say.
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23 February 2023
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