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Higher climate distress (especially anger) is associated with more climate action
As uncomfortable as it may be, we need to make people distressed about climate change and where necessary we need to make people angry about climate change because when you control for other emotions, anger is the only emotion that predicts intention to engage in pro-climate behaviours. Anger as a means to elicit pro-climate behaviours could prove especially effective given that the angrier someone is about climate change the better their overall mental health and the greater their likelihood to act
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38159371/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00172-8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424002639#bib66
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278221000018
u/Evanescencefanorigin — 9 days ago