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The Climate Emotions Wheel explores our emotional response to climate change
Humans aren't fully rational beings. We do things based on personal values, understandings, and impressions of the world around us. All of these things are affected by one thing: our emotions.
When we discuss the climate crisis, emotions aren't always part of the conversation. This is a mistake, considering that much of what we do in the face of climate change is influenced by what we feel when we think about it.
There are a lot of complex emotions in play, such as anxiety, panic, guilt, and empowerment. It can be hard to put into words or fully understand your own emotional state and how it affects your decision making. That is why I love the initiative from the Climate Mental Health Network to create a dedicated emotions wheel for climate emotions.
Making it easy to put into words the emotions you feel, understand what root emotion it is connected to, and see how these emotions affect your decision-making, will help take a more human approach to climate action, and could eliminate emotional biases that hinder more radical action.
The wheel is available in 29 (soon to be 30) languages, and you can download it for your own use for free from the Climate Mental Health Network's website. There, you can also see an interview with the scientist who developed the wheel.
Take some time to study it and consider which emotions you most often feel when you think about the climate crisis. What can you learn from your own feelings?
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It's really going to be impactful,,,,kiddos💯💯
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This is a powerful tool for exploring our emotional response to climate change.
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interesting initiative
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Oh I really like this initiative!