Grief and climate change: a year of lessons we can’t ignore

KevinMD January 22, 2025
Tomi Mitchell, MD

This wasn’t the article I had initially planned to publish. I had intended to discuss the health care system, calling it a “proverbial dumpster fire.” But in a year marked by relentless challenges, the metaphor feels too raw, too real, so I will save that for a later date. Parts of the country are literally on fire, with Los Angeles and nearby areas battling raging infernos that have torn families apart. At the same time, recently, another region has been enduring record-breaking subzero temperatures, with states like Georgia and Texas trapped in an unforgiving freeze. It feels like the planet itself is pulling in opposite directions, and I ask: What is causing this?

Grief is in the air, hard to...

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