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I'm death and i'm neill
Today we're going to talk about climate change
And how it can affect people's mental health
Natural disasters and the impacts of climate change can be stressful as in that right ath yeah definitely in today's episode
We're going to find out about how people can protect that mental health from the impacts of climate change
We'll be hearing from a psychiatriexperts and a man who survived a wild fire and helps rebuild his town
But first ps
I have question for you scientists eren't always sure
Whether natural disasters like floods and wildfires are as a results of human caused climate change
But in january
Twenty enamof cattribua affected big parts of los angeles in california
But according to the research organization world
Whether attribution human cause climate change made the fires a ten percent more likely
B thirty five percent more likely
Or see twenty percent less likely
Um
I'm going to say ten percent more likely
Okay Well
We'll find out the answer at the end of the program
Now natural disasters like floods and wildfires can destroy homes and communities
People who live in areas
Affected by natural disasters can often experience climate trauma
Trauma is what we call the very bad and long lasting emotional effects of an event or experience professor jojtei misra is an expert in climate trauma at the universitive california
She explained more about the condition to gray jackson host of bby c world service program
The climate question
Climate trauma is not an individual trauma
It's a community wide trauma
Which really requires community wide healing
Yeah
I'm really struck by what you've said about the fact
That it's whole communities that are affect not individuals
But also part of the solution is about the community
And how it rebailed and renets together
Absolutely yes
So we found that individuals who have a greater sense of positive support from their family
And a greater sense of meaningful connection with their community
They are in general more resilient
Justice research on climate trauma has found that it affect communities rather than individuals hosted the program
Grayer jackson is struck by what justie says
If you're struck by an idea
You find it particularly interesting or impressive
Graa says
That part of the solution to climate trauma could means how the community rein its together
This means how the social connections in a community are restored
We can often describe a community as closed nitt
Which means everyone helps and support each other jutce e explains that having a strong community also helps reduce or heal climate trauma
She says
That research has found that people who have a strong community are more resilient
When bad things like natural dissater happhappen
If you're resilient
You're able get better more easeasily
After something difficult or ad ad happens one person who had to be resilient
Is brushsherward
He survived a wild fire in northern
A abford in twenty seventeen called the tub fire
But when he returned home
His neighborhood was destroyed brand started to volunteer for a local support network called after the fire to try to rebuild his community as he explained to bbbc world programmed the climate question
The silver lining at all this i mean it
It asn't for the the tus fire
We wouldn't be working as a ununright now to build d new community
Ity asa
We were a close community before the tubs
But afterwards we are so much stronger and resilience
And ii think our children are as well they can jump over any hurdle
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Brad says that the work to rebuild and improve his community is the silver lining to the fire
The expression silver lining means a positive thing that comes from a negative situation
Brwd's community became more resilient
After the fire including the children
He says that they can jump over any hurdle
We can describe chenges es or dificult things in life as hurdles
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And it's quite inspiring
I think to hear how brad has taken a bad situation and try to stay resilient
Now the organization that brad d volunteers form after the fire are helping those impacted by the fires in la
In january
Which reminds me
I asked you best about reimpact of human made climate change on the wildfires in la jjanuand
And find it ten perent ent impanicy owas afraid the wrong answer
It was actually thirty five percent
Wow Okay
Well let's reak up the vovocubulary
We've and starting with trauma
Which is what we call the very bad and long lasting emotional effects of an evts or experience well o're struck by an idea or something
Someone has said you find it ten percular inteeassting or impressive
If a community reneits together
It becomes closer er and a cloknet community is where everyone looks after each other resilient means able to get better more eassting or experienway happen a sl ver arining is popositive thing that comes from a negative situation
And we can descrichallenges or didificficulthings
Things
Life Life
Hurdles once ce are six minutes araup
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