A few words on eco anxiety

includes some visual resources (documentaries/mini-series/ youtube videos...) that you’ll be able to show or share in the frame of an event on Circular Economy. Although shock is one way to raise awareness, we’ll also share with you on the next part more positive narratives to convey this crucial need to change.

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation [YOUTUBE

CHANNEL]

• Before the Flood (2016) : A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet • This Changes Everything (2015) : A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. • Climate Change: The Facts [BBC] (2019) : comprehensive rundown of the current situation. • Our Planet (2019) [Mini series] : explores Earth’s important habitats and the life they support, and shows how they're being affected by rising temperatures and sea levels, ocean acidification, and subsequent wildlife population decline. • Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) : an environmentalist seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability. • Seaspiracy (2021) : a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.

• The True Cost (2015) : documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet. • RiverBlue (2016) : around-the-world river adventure uncovering and documenting the dark side of the global fashion industry.

Facts and figures, raising awareness

on the gravity of global warming/climate change On the food industry

On the fashion industry

Eco-anxiety is the anxiety related to climate change and environmental degradation. Like anxiety, it results in a certain uneasiness and pervasive fears, rational or irrational. This overwhelming concern for the future of the planet can become quite crippling as it leads to the gallery of symptoms that come with it, from insomnia to depression or eating disorders. Also called "Earth sickness", "Spleen green" or "Green burn-out". It is a chronic fear of a doomed environment. Eco anxiety is not listed in the WHO international classification of diseases, but there has been a boom in psychological and psychiatric consultations for nearly 10 years.