Rithika Ramamurthy Rithika Ramamurthy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Brown University and the President of the Graduate Labor Organization.

Personal Hell | The Climate Anxiety Novel

Rithika Ramamurthy

In March of 2017, the American Psychological Association officially announced that feelings are valid: climate anxiety is real. In a sixty-nine page primer on therapeutic practice in the era of ecological decline, experts identify a range of negative emotional reactions including ecoanxiety (“a chronic fear of environmental doom”) and describe the psychosocial links between these states of mind and the state of the climate. The preface to the report explains...