Creative works can represent emotions emerging so fast that our brains can’t quite catch up with them.
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One night, someone cut down a tree. It wasn’t just any tree. The loss of the Sycamore Gap tree sent a nation into grief. But why?
It has psychological consequences for those affected now, but also for those who expect to be in future.
While climate change is certain, some uncertainty remains in its severity — and that’s where the hope shines through.
At a time of massive environmental change, we need to expand our language to be able to share the emotional upheavals they engender.
Beyond the environmental cost, what is the psychological toll on communities of mountaintop removal coal mining?
The built and natural environments are now changing so rapidly that our language and conceptual frameworks have to work overtime just to keep up. Under the intertwined impacts of global development, rising…
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Honorary Associate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Georgia State University, Georgia State University
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tasmania
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Senior Researcher in Behavioural Science and Psychology, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Senior Research Fellow and Cluster Coordinator Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Adj Prof McMaster University, Canada, United Nations University; McMaster University
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Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Liverpool Hope University