Joyce Fegan: Is there a vaccine for despair?

The pandemic and the climate crisis might seem like two very different beasts, but they're not

David Attenborough has emphasised there is 'hope' for our planet even though it is in 'trouble'.

I don't know about you, but my emotional range currently vacillates between despair and despair. This despair comes categorically from the news, not just the Covid-19-related kind, throw American politics and the climate crisis into the mix, and then add in the seeming lack of progressive action to remedy any of it.

At the beginning of lockdown a whole half of a year ago, a friend sent a very useful infographic that her and her psychologist colleagues were sharing. It was called: "Who do I want to be during Covid-19?"