What to do? — Don’t contribute to panic

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Ukraine, Europe and the USA
According to a 2018 national survey , nearly 70% of people in the United States are concerned about climate change, and about 51% feel “helpless.”
In Europe, the climate problem is also felt more acutely than in Ukraine, and it is more a matter of psychological aspect, rather than the fact that the problem is more acute there physically. Europeans are more concerned because they have the strength to do so, they have not only the economic but also the psychological opportunity to pay attention to the climate. When jamaica number data a person has nothing to eat or nothing to wear, the last thing he will think about are things of a tertiary nature. According to Abraham Maslow's pyramid of needs, primary biological needs, until they are satisfied, a person thinks little about social needs. In times of economic crises, for example, in the 90s, few people in Ukraine were concerned that a lot of garbage is produced and everything is packed in plastic packaging. Thinking works pragmatically: it solves problems as they arise.

When life is arranged, people have impersonal goals that are not only about individual interest and are not connected with egocentric models of the universe. People begin to actively help others, become volunteers. The idea appears that our help is needed already at the planetary level.

In fact, any phenomenon can be an object of anxiety if it is widely talked about as threatening, for example, on TV. We can make a problem out of anything. In fact, the primary problems for a person are still the problems of relationships with other people, mainly relatives or loved ones. But it is common for people to redirect their attention to other forms or topics - what is called protective projection in psychology. A person begins to think that, for example, helping the environment is the main thing in his life. This may be an objectively important thing, but the individual becomes a fanatic.