Climate fatigue
A commonly used description of weariness or disengagement around repeated climate messages or demands.
Example
Communication can acknowledge frustration and offer manageable, credible routes to participation.
The catch
The label is broad and should not be treated as a universal psychological condition.
In more depth
Climate fatigue, explained.
Climate fatigue usually describes weariness with the messages, which is different from indifference to the problem. Concern stays widespread. In Andre et al. (2024), a survey of about 130,000 people in 125 countries, 69% said they would give 1% of their income each month to fight climate change. People tune out when alarm arrives without a route to act, when advice contradicts itself, or when every ask lands on the individual.
Keep it apart from climate anxiety, which involves distress, and from climate fatalism, a belief that action cannot help. A fatigued reader may still care deeply and act willingly once the request is specific and the result is visible.