The traumatic events are also driving up insurance costs, creating a vicious circle of anxiety, despair and poverty. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Traumatic extreme weather events are worsening mental health problems and driving up insurance costs, creating a vicious circle of anxiety, despair and poverty. But out of the crisis comes hope that taking action will turn things around and that adapting to a world of wilder weather can reduce the risks. The Straits Times investigates.
At 10.30pm on Sunday, she hid some precious objects, among them a jewellery box, passports and musical instruments, including a home-made drum and a Tibetan singing bowl, in a ceiling cavity, and left for the home of a friend who lived on higher ground.A strange orange morning dawned in New York City on Tuesday last week, the usually pale yellow sunlight filtered through a haze of smoke from wildfires burning more than 1,000km north in Nova Scotia, Canada.
More than 16,000 people in Nova Scotia had to be evacuated as wildfires consumed forests, fields and their homes. As at May 29, the fires had burnt almost 5,000 sq km of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan provinces.For a growing number of children across the globe, the future is looking pretty scary. Rising sea levels, floods that consume towns and cities, baking heatwaves, vanishing wildlife and plastic pollution are making them feel increasingly anxious, according to researchers.
“Other terms are ecophobia, eco-despair and environmental grief. Worry, guilt and hopelessness are negative emotions that are felt along with grief, anger and despair.”When disaster strikes, insurance is meant to cushion the blow and help people recover and rebuild.
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