#196 How Divestment links to Mental Health

Welcome to the 196th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. This month’s theme for the podcast is all about anxiety linked to the climate crisis, and In today's episode, I talk about how divestment links to Mental Health.

In today’s show

• About my TEDx talk [00:39]
• More on the fossil fuel divestment movement. [02.49]
• How divestment can improve mental health. [04:49]
• Why systems must change to protect people's mental health. [05.06]
• Climate change's impact on mental health. [07:08]

Quotes on

• Divestment is essential.
• There is significant evidence that demonstrates that mental ill health and the climate emergency crisis and injustice are interlinked.
• Increasing rates of climate-related hazards are exacerbating existing mental health problems.
• The irony of supporting mental health in a dying world seems lost on the people elected to make the most difficult decisions.

Resources for Anxiety Linked to the Climate Crisis

• Guardian Beginners Guide to Divestment
• Princeton can't solve the mental health crisis without divesting from fossil fuels
• Divestment in Fossil Fuels: A Preventive Public Health Strategy
• RCP Position Statement
• Al-Jazeera Climate Crisis Creating a Mental Health Crisis
• Climate Psychiatry Alliance
• Listen to Episode #193: Anxiety Linked to the Climate Crisis
• Check out Episode #194: Parents for Future
• Listen to Episode #195: Colonial Legacies and Climate Change
• Join my Mailing List and receive my free e-Book here
• Check out my TEDx talk: The Connection between Culture, Race and Mental Health

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