Agonising over the icecap or frantic about floods?

..You may be suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’

Many of us worry about the future of the planet. It’s both fashionable and cathartic. We can assuage our guilt over the fact that, say, the “carbon footprint” from our holiday to the Maldives has upped the official Dead Polar Bear Index by an additional 2.4, or that, thanks to our purchase of a mahogany nut bowl, the Amazonian Nukak tribe has just been wiped out, by recycling bean cans and paying

For some people, however, the terrifying prospects of rising CO2 levels, ice cap shrinkage, and yet another Live Earth concert are beyond any such gesture environmentalism. Indeed, a few become so neurotic as to be unable to function. Others experience symptoms such as bulimia, depression and alcoholism. Not only is there a new term for this new condition