Why Climate Change Is Fast Becoming a Medical Emergency

The move to Los Angeles back in the early fall of 2015 was supposed to be the extension of a love affair, that began a little over a decade ago, when I was so sure that my future as a development executive was securely waiting for my overdue arrival.

2018 Japan Floods.

The TV career didn’t happen, but what I did manage to do, was to cement a thriving relationship with a city that treated me kindly. Against my best wishes, I returned to New York City after only a couple of years, and that happened because like most abusive relationships, the victim always believes they need to do better in order to curb the blows.

It took me another a decade to finally give up my toxic relationship with New York, and beg L.A. for another chance with the hopes that I was still appealing enough to take back — despite being older and not necessarily wiser.

The second time around proved to be a major dud. The adjustment period was a lot more challenging, and the piled up years had turned me into someone who didn’t want to be stuck at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter at past midnight — staging a bunch of tweets about stuff that I used to give a shit about back in 2005.

Read the Medium story by Ezinne Ukoha - “Why Climate Change Is Fast Becoming a Medical Emergency.”

Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety

“Climate change is here; it’s happening,” seems to be the overwhelming sentiment after a summer of heatwaves and historic wildfires that now has, with barely a breath in between, slipped into an early fall marked by severe storms and deadly floods.

A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES COAST
GUARD IS SEEN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW
 OF A HOUSE AS HE WADES THROUGH
 FLOOD WATERS FOR A WELLNESS CHECK ON
CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THEIR HOME
 IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE FLORENCE
 ON SUNDAY, SEPT 16, 2018 IN LUMBERTON, NC.

Hurricane Florence continues to devastate mid-Atlantic states while Typhoon Mangkhut takes a severe toll on China and the Philippines and has, for now, been named the world’s strongest storm this year. But before the wind and water there was the heat and fire.

Severe wildfires broke out around the world this summer, from the U.S. and Canada to Sweden and Greece. The heatwaves in Europe caused a glacier to melt and a river to evaporate, while wildfires in the western U.S. made the air hazardous to breathe.

Read the ThinkProgress story by Kyla Mandel - “Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety.”