How is climate change affecting our social connections?

Aug 23, 2023

Climate change is not just about physical changes to the environment, but also about the social and psychological impacts of these changes. Image: Pexels/Jimmy Chan

Kiffer George Card

Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Kalysha Closson

Adjunct Professor and Post Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences

Our Impact

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Climate Change is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Climate Change

Clear-cutting operations in Brazil reveal with particular clarity the exponential growth of our demands upon this planet, in stark contrast to our ever shrinking social networks and communities. Image: AP Photo/Andre Penner

Discover

What’s the World Economic Forum doing about climate change?

Climate change is as much a crisis of disconnection with ourselves and our planet as it is a failure of policy. Image: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

As evidence mounts that rising heat may be leading to lower birth rates the connection between climate change and sexual and reproductive health has never been more important. Image: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marta Iwanek

Have you read?

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.