A year ago, I struggled with eco-anxiety so much that I had become a downer in my social circles. I was trying to sensitize people around me about the impact of their diet, their fast fashion habits, or their choice to take a business seat when flying. My fear of an apocalyptic future crippled me to a near-obsession. I asked for help from a psychiatrist a couple of years ago, but she had no clue how to manage eco-anxiety.
Then, in 2023, several things happened. I went to a cine-debate with Pauline André-Dominguez, who switched from a career in journalism to inform people about the biological crisis — is there anything more important? — to become a researcher in the new stories of the future and ecology. I wondered: how can inventing stories be more important than informing about the state of the world?