http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=423&Itemid=63
A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring more frequently around the world.
Albrecht’s stunning insight? That there might be a wide variety of shifts in the health of an ecosystem—from subtle landscape changes related to global warming to desolate wastelands created by large-scale strip mining—that diminish people’s mental health.
The end of the last century was marked by an increase in depression and other mental illnesses. Is it possbile that, when we damage our ecosystem, we also damage our mental health?
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