The Most Important Question

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How's your mental health around climate change?

That is today's big question, and my guest is Britt Wray. Britt and I recorded this conversation in 2022. It is an all-time favorite of mine and of our listeners.

Britt is the author of the fantastic book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. She has a passionate generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Britt has a PhD in science communication from the University of Copenhagen. She's the author of The Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction. 

Britt has a PhD in science communication from the University of Copenhagen. She has hosted several podcasts, radio, and TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED resident. Britt is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she is researching the mental health impacts of climate change on young people.

Britt is also the author of Gen Dread, the first newsletter that shares wide-ranging ideas for supporting emotional health and psychological resilience in the climate and wider ecological crisis. I read it every week.

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INI Book Club:

  • Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray

  • Greek Myths by Gustav Schwab

  • Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club

  • Links:

    • Follow Britt Wray on Twitter

    • Follow @gen_dread on Instagram

    • Gen Dread Newsletter

    • Climate Awakening

    • Climate Café

    • Good Grief Network

    • Work That Reconnects

    • Climate Psychology Alliance

    • Climate Psychiatry Alliance

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