Climate Anxiety Quotes

“Taking action can also help reduce anxiety about the future. The compounding power of daily rituals can not only transform your personal relationship to the planet but also create a ripple effect from your life to the lives of people you know. Simply put, the Law of Simplicity & Consistency, the Law of Identity, and the Law of Amplification work together to create culture change.”
― Heather White, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet

“I keep crying with laughter and swallowing my hair in the wind and I'm worried about climate change but right now I'm not anxious coz I'm here with you all in my favourite place in the world, but please don't mention the one billion native wildlife dead coz I just want to forget about it all for a few hours or half a day maybe and yeah, we're a world embarrassment coz we've voted in climate change deniers who will do nothing about our horrible rate of carbon emissions even though we are gonna be one of the first countries directly impacted by climate change and I even feel conflicted about having children when the world will probably end but also isn't having children an act of hope and surely if all the people who care about the world stop having kids out of conscience it's just gonna mean the next generation is even less populated with people raised to fight for this earth...”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

“—What they don’t seem to understand, she said, —is that anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to what we are living through.”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House

“I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had led her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future. A kind of pact with the world, that, having increased her stake in it, she should try to protect what she had found to love.”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House

“I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet.”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House

“People said, ‘They must have known their homes were vulnerable.’ We were protected by our houses, and our educations, and our high street shopping centers. We had the habits of luck and power, and couldn’t understand that they were not our right. We saw that the situation was bad elsewhere, but surely things would work out. Because didn’t they always, for us?”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House

“Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present—and despite the fact that we had known that it would come, the overwhelming feeling now that it was here, was of surprise, like waking up one morning to find that you had been young, and now all at once you weren’t.”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House