[Coral-List] ‘Ecological grief’, coal reefs and climate change

skimmer at octogroup.org skimmer at octogroup.org
Tue May 10 14:31:28 UTC 2022


Thanks for this, David. This is now a couple of years old, but OCTO's The Skimmer newsletter summarized a lot of research and popular news articles on ecological grief a few years ago: https://octogroup.org/news/ecological-grief-new-research-mental-health/. It provides a good introduction to the research.

Best wishes,
Sarah Carr
Chief Knowledge Broker, OCTO 
Former editor of The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management


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Subject: [Coral-List] ‘Ecological grief’, coal reefs and climate change

Dear listers,

My cousin, a psychologist working on mental well-being oriented around nature, asked me about this topic - ‘ecological grief' recently, on which I recall some posts on coral-list a few years ago perhaps? In searching on the topic I found quite a bit online, and none less by some of our own - Steve Simpson and Tim Gordon, on dealing with the mental/emotional impact of working on coral reefs - https://exepose.com/2020/03/18/ecological-grief-how-climate-change-is-affecting-our-mental-health/.

She’s working on this, with a global network of practitioners, which might be of interest to list members - https://thrive-worldwide.org/blog/the-battle-against-climate-anxiety/,  https://thrive-worldwide.org/event/reflective-practise-for-leaders-in-conservation-climate/. Some of this is fee-paying services so I’m not promoting those, but I think the topic is of interest to various on the list.

Sincerely,

David Obura PhD, MBS
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