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Tame Your Climate Anxiety in 2024

A poet invited people to share their climate fears. What she found surprised her. The post Tame Your Climate Anxiety in 2024 appeared first on Nautilus.

Almost a decade ago, a small booth appeared in a public park in Providence, Rhode Island. It sported a sign that read: “Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth.”

The project was the brainchild of writer and activist Kate Schapira. She had been feeling a lot of dread herself and noticed her conversations with friends were dead-ending. Schapira, who teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and is a poet, says her own anxieties arose from her imagination more than from

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