Eco-anxiety: fear of environmental doom hitting people’s mental health

I remember coming home from school in the early 80's and seeing footage of the space shuttle blowing up. My (and a lot of other peoples') first thought was that the USSR had found a way to sabotage it.

We had to contend with constant reminders of the "two minutes to midnight" concept, the idea that the USSR was going to attack us one way or other eventually, and that it would result in mutually assured destruction. The popular movies at the time capitalized on this fear in a big way. We were all expecting to see two suns on the horizon very soon.

It was definitely an anxiety-inducing time. I think today's Republican fear of social medicine is actually connected to this period, where "soviet" and "socialist" were pretty much only heard of as a single thing.