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  • Ethics
  • Sociology

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  • Humanity faces unprecedented environmental crises, including mass extinction and climate change.
  • These crises increasingly impact mental health, leading to concepts like ecoanxiety.
  • Medicalizing ecoanxiety risks individualizing distress and ignoring social/political dimensions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose reconsidering ecological emotions through the lens of moral distress.
  • To contextualize ecological emotions within social, political, and ethical frameworks.
  • To challenge the medicalized view of ecoanxiety.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis and ethical re-framing of ecological emotions.
  • Critique of psychological perspectives on ecoanxiety.
  • Advocacy for an ethics of care and ecofeminist paradigm.

Main Results:

  • Environmental moral distress highlights the social and political dimensions of ecological emotions.
  • This perspective reveals the entanglement of ecological emotions with ethical concerns.
  • Medicalized views of ecoanxiety fail to recognize these broader contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Viewing ecological emotions as moral distress shifts focus from individual pathology to collective responsibility.
  • An ethics of care and ecofeminist approach are crucial for addressing environmental moral distress.
  • This reframing empowers collective action and moral agency in ecological struggles.