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=Final Paper:= Introduction: Michael First Paragraph: Leah (On Ecotherapy etc.) Second Paragraph: Eliot (His Stuff...) Third Paragraph: Aidan (Fear etc.) Conclusion: Michael

=Post Here:= We did our paper on the psychological effects that climate change can have on humans. These effects include fear, denial, and anxiety. In detail, each of our group members, Aidan, Eliot, and Leah, each came up with a character that is specialized in a certain field. Aidan played Matthew Gates, an expert on fear tactics. Judy Bushfield, an expert on eco-anxiety disorder, was played by Leah, and Kevin Green, a man who investigates climate change denial, was played by Eliot. Each member wrote about his or her characters field of study.
 * Introduction:**

One of the specific branches in the field of "psychology involving climate change" is eco-therapy. We researched and found out a lot about the science and purpose of eco-therapy, and eco-anxiety. Eco-anxiety is a condition where people literally worry themselves sick over the impending doom of climate change. Symptoms include sleeplessness, loss of appetite, panic attacks, and depression. There's one cure to eco-anxiety, and that's eco-therapy. The job of an eco-therapist is to reconnect their client with the natural world. Before the industrial revolution, people lived alongside nature, relying on mother earth to keep society alive and thriving. But now, humanity is so engaged in the internet and t.v that we forget to set aside time for the environment. An Eco-therapist encourages and helps their patients get outside more each day and take time appreciate the natural world. By doing this, people afraid of climate change will feel like "a part of nature" again, which will help them get over fears of dawning climate doom. Eco-therapists will also encourage clients to do simple little things, like turning the lights off when leaving a room, or remembering their reusable bags when going to the store. This helps victims of eco-anxiety feel as though their making a difference and contributing to making the earth a cleaner, better place.
 * First Paragraph:**

As Kevin green, we researched denial and why we do nothing. Denial is caused when we, as humans push away something that will threaten us. This human ability to deny the upfront problems has helped with our evolution for thousands of years. By being able to turn our back on something and forget it helps us keep from getting into dangerous situations. These are seven steps of denial towards climate change, or why we do nothing: uncertainty, mistrust, social comparison, undervaluing risks, lack of control, perceived behavioral control, and habit. These steps can be overcome, though. The government and campaign groups have used psychology to tackle these barriers.
 * Second Paragraph:**

One of the things we learned is about the primal, primitive instinct of fear. We learned how it works biologically and psychologically. Fear is a very primitive instinct that all humans share and all humans react the same biologically to fear in the same way. Some of these signs will be sweating, increased heart rate and anxiety. The system that humans use when they are confronted with fear is the fight flight system. The way that works is that the adrenal glands start to release adrenaline, which in turn helps the human to either run away or fight to defend it. The way fear works psychologically is different for each human being but some different ways people react are; To become anxious and to hyperventilate, some people barely have a response to fear at all, but most people have a medium response to fear which differs for each person.
 * Third Paragraph:**

In conclusion, we all worked very hard on each of our specialists, and our area of study. We learned many things about the effect climate change has on people's minds, such as eco-anxiety and denial. These can be caused by fear tactics or an overload of information, or even not spending enough time in nature. We all learned about how the government and corporations both can use fear tactics on people in order to make them believe in their views. We also learned what can cause people to deny climate change, and when denied or worried over how it can even cause a anxiety attack. Fear, denial, and anxiety are some of the many psychological effects of climate change on humans.
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