'Climate cafés' have been popping up worldwide over the past few years to help people deal with their global warming anxiety, according to a recent New York Times report. The article 'Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?' documented a new phenomenon of groups meeting, whether publicly or privately, to 'discuss their grief, fears, anxiety and other emotions about the climate crisis.
My older son, Kevin, was one of those activists who was broken by the emotional burden he carried, believing that his personal well-being was of little importance when weighed against the needs of the world. He died by suicide in 2003. He wrote, ‘Letting go of the passion to work on substantive structural change in favor of personal happiness is not a viable option.