'Heatwave Anxiety' Is Getting Worse – Three Ways To Handle It

"Gone are the days when a heatwave was seen as something positive to be enjoyed."

We’re on our third heatwave of the year so far in the UK. This spell – which may become the longest run of hot weather in decades – follows record-breaking temperatures in May and June, which led to school closures and travel chaos.

HuffPost UK previously spoke with young people, psychologists, and environmental campaigners about “climate grief”. This isn’t just about feeling uncomfortable in a heatwave: it’s an existential mourning for the summers and winters we grew up with, which are increasingly less likely to come back.

And environmentalist Dr Ruth Valerio, the author of How to Survive a World in Crisis, recently spoke with us about “heatwave anxiety” too.

What is heatwave anxiety?

Dr Valerio said that, for most of us, our feelings about soaring temperatures have changed in recent years.

“Gone are the days when a heatwave was seen as something positive to be enjoyed: now it is a worrying feature of our warming world that we are having to learn to cope with, both physically and psychologically,” she said.

The weather........

© HuffPost