Masters Research

I had heard of people experiencing mental health problems surrounding climate change before, I knew it was referred to as "Climate Grief" however I wasn't sure if this was documented as a problem that people were experiencing with the growth in talk and actual evidence of climate change impacting the planet.  Searching "Climate Grief" I found this article on the website Psycom, it is an article detailing Climate Greif, how it is affecting more and more people, and what people suffering from it can do to curb the feeling. I want to look further into the 2018 paper that first used the term "ecological grief" and the 2019 poll into US citizens and their thoughts and feeling towards the climate as I feel it will help me understand people's attitudes surrounding climate change better. I'm amazed that 68% of adults feel anxiety about climate change and that 47% of younger people say that climate anxiety is affecting their daily life, this is almost a

  Having looked at the impact of the sea level rise I wanted to see how much insurance for flooding would cost someone, I checked GoCompares website and there they listed this information which gave an estimate based on distance from water how much flooding insurance would cost a homeowner. I would have thought that proximity and price would have changed a lot when further away from the water however it seems to stay pretty close to that £193 figure, along with this flooding insurance isn't as expensive as I thought it was however it's still something that anyone living near a body of water will have to consider as it is now a real possibility that flooding will become less and less rare. Looking at countrywide cost estimates for the damage flooding can cause is very scary, seeing that in 2015/16 flooding caused £1.6 billion worth of damage is crazy and that between November and March flooding caused around £333 million worth of damage just makes me even more scared for the imp

 When thinking about our connection to the sea I started to think about the very real possibility of sea-level rise due to climate change and the melting of the polar ice caps, this is where I found this website where you can see the extent of sea-level rise on a map in your area. I found this map called surging seas which aims to detail what rising seas will llook like on our maps, I decided to look at Portsmouth not only because it is where I currently am but also because I would assume it would be one of the hardest hit areas when it comes to sea level rising.  Simply moving the sea level to 1 foot above current levels the sea rushes into portsmouth, pretty much filling up the common and getting into parts of southsea closes to the sea. Along with this it also reaches into Old Portsmouth and Milton Common, its so strange thinking that these areas would be underwater so quickly after such a small sea level change however this is becoming a very real and scary prospect that will happe

  I think it will be good to look more at the relationship people have with the sea and how it changes their way of life, I found this book about folktales in England. Because England is an island nation I want to see if I can find any folktales in it that may be about the sea and give me a better understanding of the relationship with it in the past. Within the book, I only really found two examples of folktales that were about the sea which was pretty annoying but anyway. The first one I found was called The Sea Morgan and The Conger Eels where a mysterious creature called a "sea morgan" would sing and draw people out into the mudflats once the tide had gone out. Once out there the victims would be sucked down into the mud and eaten by eels, the creature is killed by a deaf boy who goes out on the mud in a sled to kill the "sea morgan". This story reminded me a lot of the sirens and mermaids I had been reading about however a Sea Morgan was never mentioned. Doing