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Experts argue that dissociation is a coping mechanism that hinders effective climate behavior

Credit: Sveta K of Pexel Collective dissociation prevents people from taking effective action to tackle overwhelming climate emergency, finding a study published in Cambridge Prism: Global Mental Health. The overwhelming scale and complexity of climate emergency often brings a sense of futileness to the individual’s ability to feel helpless and to bring about meaningful change. Group dissociation is a form…