David Toro was taken aback by the turnout at a climate change anxiety peer-support group.

After all, his feelings of dread and powerlessness when he thought about climate change could be isolating. There were like-minded people in his environmental studies program at Concordia University who shared his concerns, but he at times struggled with how to process those emotions.

Initially sparked by documentaries he saw during his childhood in Colombia, those emotions persisted as he watched the evidence on climate change mount and ecosystems careen toward – and even pass – critical tipping points, from coral reefs dying off to the Amazon rainforest drying up. He’d wonder: did other people care?

So, in late 2023 at Concordia, when Toro walked into that peer-support group meeting, he was surpr

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