Dr Matt Adams investigated claims about the potential of psychedelics “not only for improving mental health, but also, remarkably, as a key to overcoming inaction in the face of the climate crisis”.
Some experts maintain psychedelics not only help “reset” brain circuitry but enhance emotional responsiveness and increase “positive feelings of connectiveness to one’s self and others, and to the natural world”.
at the University of 映客直播’s Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, writing in , the website for news, comment and analysis, written by academics and researchers, said recent trials of the psychedelic drug psilocybin resulted in positive responses in people with depression or anxiety, even six months later.
He said another study, peer reviewed, claimed the drugs can overcome inaction in fighting climate change: “They enhanced participants’ sense of being connected to nature, an effect that deepened when that experience took place in natural settings. The evidence suggested that direct experience of nature … can underpin enhanced environmental awareness and a desire to care for nature, therefore reducing people’s ‘environmentally destructive behaviour’.”