The Sydney Morning Herald recently covered a new report prepared for the Climate Institute in Australia, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of Living with Inaction on Climate Change, which called the past 15 years a “preview of life under unrestrained global warming.”
The paper goes on to say that loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse and “suggests a possible link between Australia’s recent decade-long drought and climate change. It points to a breakdown of social cohesion caused by loss of work and associated stability, adding that the suicide rate in rural communities rose by 8 per cent.”
Read the article in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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