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Letter/Communication
Climate anxiety does not need a diagnosis of a mental health disorder
The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.6, pp.e383-e838
2022
Abstract
In a recent Correspondence in The Lancet Planetary Health, Sampaio and Sequeria1 state that “climate anxiety is not yet considered a mental health disorder” and might be a risk factor for mental disorders, which is something that we contest. The authors further claim that “climate anxiety occurs mainly in lower-income countries located in areas that are more directly affected by climate change”,1 which we regard as doubly incorrect: first, there are no substantial differences in climate anxiety between countries with different average incomes,2 and second, it is misleading to aver that lower income countries are more directly affected by climate change. Rather, the issue is one of impact visibility and adaptation capacity.
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- Title
- Climate anxiety does not need a diagnosis of a mental health disorder
- Authors
- Navjot Bhullar (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityMelissa Davis (Author)Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyRoselyn Kumar (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - LegacyDebra Rickwood (Author)
- Publication details
- The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.6, pp.e383-e838
- Publisher
- The Lancet Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00072-9
- ISSN
- 2542-5196
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- French
- Record Identifier
- 99637479102621
- Output Type
- Letter/Communication
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