Why drought makes us scared, edgy, angry
[E]ven Bay Area residents who haven’t suffered such a loss feel the dread creeping in as the hills turn brown and the Sierra snowpack shrinks to its lowest level in some 70 years. The American Psychological Association describes climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety, as fear of environmental doom. In the Bay Area, it has become easy to believe in doomsday scenarios on days when wildfire smoke chokes the air with particulate matter and turns the sky an apocalyptic orange.