The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It’s Sending People to Therapy

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What if I told you there was a paper on climate change that was so uniquely catastrophic, so perspective-altering, and so absolutely depressing that it’s sent people to support groups and encouraged them to quit their jobs and move to the countryside? Professor Jem Bendell, a sustainability academic at the University of Cumbria, wrote the paper after taking a sabbatical at the end of 2017 to review and understand the latest climate science “properly—not sitting on the fence anymore,” as he puts it on the phone to me. Researchers from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), an established progressive think-tank, consulted Bendell’s paper in the process of writing its new report, “This is a crisis facing up to the age of environmental breakdown.”

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