From the article in La Presse published February 29, 2020 (translated from the original):
Eco-anxiety is a new buzzword. It didn’t exist 10 years ago but is now used to describe concerns about climate change. Is eco-anxiety a real thing?
“Basically, we’re talking about anxiety because we’re talking about a potential threat to our feelings of existential safety. [Ecoanxiety] is not a very technical term,” says Joe Flanders, psychologist and founder and director of the Mindspace Clinic and professor at McGill University”
Full article can be found here: https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f747caef-10d9-4f3f-ba02-bbd06cdc1ca4%7C_0.html