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IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON WELBEING: A PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON WELBEING: A PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
DR. MD. INTEKHAB-UR-RAHMANREADER
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
B. N. MANDAL UNIVERSITYMADHEPURA-BIHAR
PIN-852113
IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON WELBEING:
A PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
Climate change is arguably one of the most pressing issues facing our planet and its inhabitants. In bio and geophysical terms, climate change is defined
as changes over time in the averages and variability of surface temperature, precipitation,
and wind as well as associated changes in Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and natural water supplies,
snow and ice, land surface, ecosystems, and living organisms.
INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
Global climate change is fundamentally a biophysical phenomenon. However, the
recent and accelerating warming of the earth’s climate is largely attributable to human
activity, and its impacts are mediated by psychological and
social processes and can be limited primarily by human
activity.
REPORT OF
American Psychological Association (APA)
REPORT OF
American Psychological Association (APA)
This American Psychological Association (APA) task force report describes how
psychology can help better understand the causes and consequences of climate change and can contribute to humanity’s response to the continuing process of global climate
change.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• Heat waves contribute to more alcohol and substance abuse.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• Just an increase of 1 degree F (0.5 C) seems to increase the risk of violent behaviour, especially in warm climates and the inner city.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• Food and water shortages threaten our basic sense of security and therefore are
associated with increases in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other mental health
problems.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• The chronic drought in the outback of Australia is causing a new and dangerous variation of grief, solastalgia, which is a
kind of distress about environmental losses in one’s homeland.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• Perceptions of poor air quality results in increased anxiety, especially in children,
along with increased family violence.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• Individual panic and group hysteria are risks of vector-borne or waterborne diseases.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• People with schizophrenia are of particular risk health-wise as they tend to ignore health risks and tend not to take necessary precautions. One study links increased air pollution, specifically from motor vehicles, with an increased risk for schizophrenia. If duplicated, this would be an important finding with implications in regard to climate change.
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
Global warming is associated with mental health risks:
• When viewed in the totality of its impacts, global warming creates the potential for large-scale human conflict, as a result of displacement from climate-scarred lands and/or disputes over increasingly scarce resources.
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
• More people are likely to be vulnerable to the mental health implications of climate change than physical health impairments. Yet for general mental healthcare in most countries, insurance and resources are inadequate compared with general healthcare.
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
• Disaster Response Teams are prepared for responding to acute disasters, but not to the more chronic and slowly developing mental health problems related to global warming.
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
Resources for providing mental healthcare related to global
warming
• Even with adequate resources, people with mental illness often receive inadequate care.
CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION
• It is concluded that Psychology can improve understanding of the behaviours
that drive climate change by building better Behavioral models based on empirical
analysis, providing deeper understanding of individual and household behaviour, and applying evaluation research methods to
efforts to develop and improve interventions.