‘I'm profoundly sad, I feel guilty': scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis

In 2014, Joe Duggan started reaching out to climate scientists to ask them a question: how did climate change make them feel?

Joe Duggan returned to his website Is This How You
 Feel by asking scientists how their feelings on the
climate crisis had changed since he launched it
in 2014. Many were frustrated, angry and scared.

“I was just blown away when I started getting the letters back,” he says.

Duggan, a science communicator at Australian National University, set up a website and starting publishing the mostly handwritten responses.

“[Professor] Katrin Meissner was one of the first, and her letter really hit me. It was so ... unscience-y. Almost poetic.”

“It makes me feel sad. And it scares me,” Meissner wrote.

“It scares me more than anything else. I see a group of people sitting in a boat, happily waving, taking pictures on the way, not knowing that this boat is floating right into a powerful and deadly waterfall.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Graeme Readfearn - “‘I'm profoundly sad, I feel guilty': scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis.”