Climate change is spawning a mental health crisis. This OZY original series unpacks the phenomenon and the coming fixes. 

Men have another advantage over their female counterparts, thanks to a warming planet. 

It’s long been argued that climate change will see our cities flooded, our forests reduced to ash and our weather turn increasingly violent and unpredictable.

But research has found that the downside of living in a hotter, less-climate-stable world may not be limited only to buildings, trees and weather: A recently released report suggests climate change may actually affect what’s going on inside our own heads. And as with many of the adverse effects of climate change, it doesn’t affect everyone equally.

In fact, American women are 60 percent more likely than men to suffer from mental illnesses because of climate change.

Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the now widely recognized term “solastalgia.” Can he bring about a more optimistic spinoff?

You’re at home with your family on the sofa. Despite being surrounded by loved ones, melancholy is rising within you. Why? Outside the weather is no longer how it used to be. The seasons hardly resemble themselves. You turn on the television and it’s the usual: The Great Barrier Reef is in a state of crisis; polar ice caps are melting. Home in both the immediate and the planetary sense is changing. How do you feel? Isolated? Depressed? Longing for a different time?

There’s a term for this: You’re feeling solastalgic.