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- noun rare, neologism
Anxiety about damage to theecosystem .
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Terms like "nature-deficit disorder," "ecoanxiety" and "ecoparalysis" have sprung up in recent years and are used by ecopsychologists to diagnose their patients.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert David Jaffee 2010
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Terms like "nature-deficit disorder," "ecoanxiety" and "ecoparalysis" have sprung up in recent years and are used by ecopsychologists to diagnose their patients.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert David Jaffee 2010
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Terms like "nature-deficit disorder," "ecoanxiety" and "ecoparalysis" have sprung up in recent years and are used by ecopsychologists to diagnose their patients.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert David Jaffee 2010
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The notion of "ecoanxiety" has crept into the culture here.
The Jawa Report 2009
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Where there is ecoanxiety, of course, there are ecotherapists.
The Jawa Report 2009
kad commented on the word ecoanxiety
"It was the subject of a recent cover story in San Francisco magazine that quotes a Berkeley mother so stressed out about the extravagance of her nightly baths that she started to reuse her daughter’s bath water. Where there is ecoanxiety, of course, there are ecotherapists."
--For 'EcoMoms,' Saving Earth Begins at Home. NYTimes, 2/16/08
February 16, 2008