Investigating climate change and mental health

The authors found a significant amount of research demonstrating how climate change poses risks to mental health. A major literature review highlights the connections that researchers have found between climate change and mental health. The review, which appears in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, demonstrates that climate change is a major risk to people’s mental health. Climate change and health Researchers have argued that human-influenced climate change poses an existential threat to civilization, with many associated ecological, social, political, economic, and health risks. However, there has been less investigation into the effects of climate change on mental health.