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#80 Britt Wray: Feeling and Healing Our Climate Anxiety

#80 Britt Wray: Feeling and Healing Our Climate Anxiety

FromWhat Could Possibly Go Right?


#80 Britt Wray: Feeling and Healing Our Climate Anxiety

FromWhat Could Possibly Go Right?

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
May 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of the ecological crisis. She is the creator of Gen Dread, the weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis” and the author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (2022). She has hosted several podcasts, radio & TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED speaker.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The “profound moment of collective wake up” and the eco-anxiety we find ourselves inThe impacts of the climate crisis on young people and their feelings of despair and betrayalThe importance of acceptance and “leaning into that vulnerability and lack of control” for outcomes, while still taking actionComplete show notes HEREConnect with Britt WrayWebsite: www.brittwray.comNewsletter: gendread.substack.com Instagram: instagram.com/gen_dreadTwitter: twitter.com/brittwray Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the show
Released:
May 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilities and ways humanity might step onto a better, post-pandemic path.