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The report cites growing evidence, much of it the result of research done in Canada, about not only the physical, but also the mental health effects of climate change.

They include eco-anxiety, ecological grief and something called solastalgia, described as “feeling homesick when you are at home.” The word, coined by Australian philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht, specifically refers to environmental pain and is related to an Inuit word that refers to a friend behaving in an unfamiliar way.

Researchers in Canada’s North have described some of those impacts in people whose landscape is rapidly changing, including the Inuit.

Climate change, which results in extreme heat waves, unusual forest fires and other direct impacts, also increases suicide risk among some, said Howard.

The Lancet Countdown 2018 Report, supported by the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Medical Association, was released at the same time as an international report on health and climate change. The Canadian report includes recommendations for policy-makers — including putting a price on carbon.

Carbon pricing, said Howard, is the best tool available for tackling the public health issues resulting from climate change. She compared it to efforts to reduce tobacco consumption.

“We know that it works because we have seen it work when it comes to phasing out tobacco.”

The report focuses on some of the effects of climate change seen in the far North, the impact of forest fires on individuals in Western Canada and the affect of recent heat waves in southern Canada. Dozens of deaths in Quebec this summer were attributed to an extended heat wave.