Laranjeira, CarlosMarujo, Helena ÁguedaCharepe, ZaidaQuerido, Ana2024-10-302024-10-302024-10-23Laranjeira C, Marujo HÁ, Charepe Z and Querido A (2024) Promoting ecological hope as an antidote for eco-emotions and earth-related mental syndromes. Front. Psychol. 15:1471073. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1471073http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/10207This article is part of the Research Topic The Psychology of Hope.Front. Psychol., 23 October 2024 Sec. Positive Psychology.Funding The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (UIDB/05704/2020 and UIDP/05704/2020) and by the Scientific Employment Stimulus—Institutional Call—(https://doi. org/10.54499/CEECINST/00051/2018/CP1566/CT0012, accessed on 15 July 2024).In this opinion paper, the authors discuss the impact of the climate crisis in the field of mental health, which has generated widespread clusters of eco-emotions and so-called ‘psychoterratic’ syndromes [i.e., Earth-related mental syndromes] (Ágoston et al., 2022; Cianconi et al., 2023; Stanley et al. 2021). We then consider how ecological hope can be seen as the current manifestation of the responsibility and reconciliation between humans and our common home: earth. Restoring habitats and biological communities is urgent, and we must foster both the well-being of the earth and humanity through ecological restoration. We end by outlining practical steps to promote ecological hope in education for sustainable development.engHopeClimate ChangeEcologyMental HealthSustainabilityHealth VulnerabilityUncertaintyjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.14710731664-1078