Eco-anxiety and green guilt: Feeling blue about not being green | Washington Examiner

When Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was making the rounds, I wrote an article about it for a sustainable living publication. The editors ran it next to a photo of a stop sign floating in the middle of a flooded street. My friend's 5-year-old son saw the picture. Later, he woke up with nightmares, scared the world was coming to an end (sorry, kid). Children aren't the only ones tossing and turning. Adults are suffering full-blown panic attacks over fear of our environment's dismal-looking future. Eco-anxiety is a state of feeling overwhelmed and helpless about the fact that so many actions humans take have bad eco-repercussions.