Barbara Easterlin News Today

How to act in service of the planet — and your values.

How anxiety about the planet’s future is transforming the practice of psychotherapy.

The immensity and destruction of the 2018 wildfires in Sonoma County, California left a visceral impression on Mark Freed. He was 54 and had recently moved to the area with his then-wife to escape the crowded city of San Francisco; he’d never lived through a wildfire season before. The walls of flame “make you feel like an ant,” he said. “You don’t feel human, you’re just a thing to burn.”In 2018 alone, California saw 7,948 wildfires destroy 1,975...

A psychiatrist and a new mother discuss the condition. Also: “Eco-anxiety”; domestic violence; Donald Trump’s stalling strategy; making a minyan.

Acknowledging climate distress is the first step in doing something about the much larger issue of global warming.