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Psychologists now have a name for Larsen's condition: eco-anxiety, the overwhelming and sometimes debilitating concern for the worsening state of the environment. As signs of global warming accumulate, therapists say they're seeing more and more patients with eco-anxious symptoms. Sufferers feel depression, hopelessness and insomnia, and...
"People like to think the environment is something out there, not connected to them," says Lorin Lindner, a Los Angeles psychologist who specializes in the emerging field of ecopsychology. "But we are not divorced from this biosphere. The more you learn, you realize that squirrels are part of a greater...
...There may be a high environmental price to pay as poor nations convert from two wheels to four. John Rogers, a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, estimates the number of cars in India will increase from 6.2 million in 2005 to 41.6 million by 2025. Putting millions of new vehicles on roads will increase pollution and put further strain on overtaxed transportation networks. "We cannot afford this type of congestion," says Anumita Roychowdhury, associate director of the New Delhi-based nongovernmental group Center for Science and Environment. "It's defeating the reason people buy cars: for mobility." Roychowdhury...
No wonder that last week, central banks - like a frazzled mother jamming a pacifier into a wailing infant's mouth - rushed in to try to calm the incipient panic, shoving $300 billion of fresh cash into the credit markets to make sure they didn't seize up entirely. (The Bank...
Shed Be Right, Mate I enjoyed the review of makers, breakers and Fixers, the latest "Blokes and Sheds" book by Mark Thomson [Aug. 6]. In pride of place on the door to my shed is a Shed Code of Practice from woodworkforums.com, which states: "The purpose of a shed is...