The fear of climate change and other environmental phenomena, or more specifically, “the feeing of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change”. An ecophobic person is likely to have feelings of great anxiety or helplessness about the future. They are possibly also
human fatalists, believing that humanity is bringing about the destruction of itself and the planet and that nothing can be done to prevent it. While many
people today are rightfully worried about the effects of
human intervention on the earth’s climate, some ecophobic
people take an even more pessimistic view, and believe that the extinction of mankind itself is necessary to save the planet. This is a controversial view, and not held by most
people who feel anxiety about climate change.
If you
feel a general sense of helplessness and fatalism when you contemplate the
future in humanity’s struggle against climate change, it
may be a sign that you have ecophobia