eco-anxiety

A form of ecoanxiety — Anxiety about damage to the ecosystem.

Meanings

nouneco-anxiety (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of ecoanxiety.

    For the first time ever, eco-anxiety has entered the psychiatric lexicon to describe the anxiety that we feel about the future of the planet.

    2020, Anita Vandyke, A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days, Penguin, →ISBN
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