Tag: climate grief

February 7, 2022
Kimberley Hare

My Broken Heart

by Kimberley Hare Last Tuesday, I presented at my local Accident & Emergency Department with severe chest and arm pain and shortness of breath. The doctors suspected I was having a heart attack, and so I spent the next seven hours having tests of all kinds. Eventually, they ruled...

climate grief

Gone: One Beautiful Bird

by Trebbe Johnson The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed removing 23 species of animals and plants from the Endangered Species List. Occasionally there are species, such as the Gray Wolf and the Northern Brown Kiwi, that are removed from this list because their populations have...

biodiversity, climate grief, extinction, Remembrance Day for Lost Species

June 2, 2021
DAF Editorial Team

Climate psychology & collapse – DAF Q&A with Jasmine Kieft

Jasmine Kieft is a Clinical Psychologist Registrar, a member of the leadership team of the Climate Justice Union in Western Australian, a mother of young children, and a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum. She recently published – with Jem Bendell – a review of the relevant...

climate grief, coping with emotions, psychology, research, wellbeing

March 25, 2021
Dr Malika Virah Sawmy.

Why make time to feel when there is a world to save?

In an outcome-oriented world, we think that despair would be useless, and therefore somehow immoral to allow ourselves to fall into.

climate grief, international development, resilience