{"id":248563,"date":"2024-04-09T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T23:11:54","slug":"the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Climate Anxiety and How to Address It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"custom-caption\">A group of youth demonstrators advocating for climate action. Photo: Shutterstock.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, the news gets harder to read. As I begrudgingly scroll through the myriad of apps on my phone, I\u2019m bombarded with headlines that make the reality of our climate crisis even more overwhelming. New scientific reports warn us that some of climate change\u2019s devastating impacts are now unavoidable. We\u2019re experiencing hotter summers than ever before, and our tides continue to creep closer to our homes.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s important to stay up to date on the ever-worsening climate impacts our communities contend with. But consuming stories on how glum our future looks can make me feel exhausted and anxious, despite climate action literally being my job (working at an environmental advocacy organization). Even I\u2019m sometimes left feeling like it\u2019s hard to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.clf.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of youth demonstrators advocating for climate action. Photo: Shutterstock. Every day, the news gets harder to read. As I begrudgingly scroll through the myriad of apps on my phone, I\u2019m bombarded with headlines that make the reality of our climate crisis even more overwhelming. New scientific reports warn us that some of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":221078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Truth about Climate Anxiety and How to Address It - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-truth-about-climate-anxiety-and-how-to-address-it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Truth about Climate Anxiety and How to Address It\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of youth demonstrators advocating for climate action. 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