When the mercury rises, does your anxiety rise with it? If so, you are not alone. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, three-quarters of British people are worried about climate change and 43% claim to experience anxiety about the state of the planet: a number that rises around major climate summits and extreme weather events.
There have been plenty of these in recent years. 2022 brought a record-breaking summer heatwave in Europe, but this year the European furnace has stoked up early. It only took until April for Spain’s national weather agency to announce that large parts of the country faced an “extreme risk” of wildfires due to a combination of 40℃ temperatures and persistent drought.
