Learning More About Climate Change, Disproportionately Vulnerable Communities,
and Mental Health
Climate change and mental health is a broad, emergent field. For a deeper dive into this topic, including the important ways that it manifests in communities neighboring industry and those impacted by climate-fueled extreme weather, explore the resources below.
WEBSITES, ARTICLES, AND KEY REPORTS
- Ecopsychepedia
- See Change Institute Report: Climate Change and Youth Mental Health: Psychological Impacts, Resilience Resources, and Future Directions
- EcoAmerica / American Psychological Association: Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Inequities, Responses
- EcoAmerica / American Psychological Association: Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Children and Youth Report 2023
- Environmental Health News: Pollution’s mental toll: How air, water, and climate pollution shape our mental health
- New York Times: The Unseen Toll of a Warming World
- Atmos: Eco-Grief Around the World
- Vice: People of Color Experience Eco-Grief More Deeply than White People
- WIRED: The Climate Anxiety Discussion Has a Whiteness Problem
BOOKS
- Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future, by Jade Sasser
- The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, by Clayton Page Aldern
- It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis, by Tori Tsui
- A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, by Sarah Jaquette Ray
- Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, by Britt Wray
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson
- Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet, by Megan Kennedy-Woodard and Patrick Kennedy-Williams
PODCASTS
- Mentally Healthy Nation: Climate Change and Mental Health
- Facing It: A Podcast About Love, Loss, and the Natural World
- Climate Justice Center: 5 Climate Justice Podcasts You Need to Follow
FILMS AND VIDEOS
- EcoAmerica / American Psychological Association: Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Inequities, Responses (webinar)
- TED talk: How to turn climate anxiety into action, by Renee Lertzman
- TED talk: How climate change affects your mental health, by Britt Wray
Updated: April 2024