It's both.

Different people are suffering from climate anxiety, fear, dread, unease, rage, terror, grief, denial, angst, anger, avoidance, etc.

There is no One Size Fits All when it comes to how we feel about this stuff.

Taking small climate-friendly actions and community support can help transform dread into hope and empowerment.

I don't see how. As long as everything's made in heavily-polluting countries and transported here on bunker-fuel-burning ships, global warming will proceed on schedule no matter what you and I do.

“It’s like there’s no control over what’s going to happen to us,” he told me. In trying to name his emotions, Freed said what he was experiencing wasn’t quite anxiety—it was deeper and heavier than that. That looming feeling, he said, was dread.

Sounds like Mark Freed just doesn't know what anxiety/generalised anxiety disorder is like. Because yeah, that's what anxiety is, a feeling of impending dread, doom or foreboding. It can be really fucking deep and heavy.

It’s an article about climate change, greenhouse gases, or global warming. I upvote.

I swear every week someone new wants to change terms commonly used

Journalist: “I want to report on how apocalyptic coverage of climate change breeds inaction.”

Editor: “Cool… Cool, cool, cool… But like, can you do that in an apocalyptic tone?”

Journalist: “…Fine…”

Who even called it climate anxiety?