Mental Health, Pandemic and Sustainability: What World Do We Want? We Need to Talk About Environmental Psychology |Biomedgrid

There is a strong cognitive challenge to observe that this principle of self-binding can be combined with the principle of fair sharing, a perspective that does not tell us how all generations can cooperate with each other while a contract is no longer possible if we assume that Jonas' approach is applied here [1]. Although these are challenging times, the human potential to maintain a sense of purpose during hardship has been convincingly described (Frankl, 1963). Various experiences provide persuasive evidence that people routinely find or impose meaning and a sense of coherence during times of uncertainty [2,3]. However, empirical studies, in times of extreme and real adversity, are scarce and those that exist need greater care, since crises differ in several critical dimensions, such as duration, number of people affected, or regional specificity. The Covid-19 we are currently facing, which include potential infection and hospitalization, severe economic losses, widespread adverse mental health impacts, and indeterminable timeframes for the full restoration of conventional services.