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Generation Dread: Facing the Mental Toll of Climate Change
In this episode of Second Nature, Living with Ecological Grief, host Ashlee Cunsolo welcomes Britt Wray, an acclaimed author and researcher at Stanford, focusing on climate change's impact on mental health. Britt discusses her pivotal moment of climate awareness when contemplating motherhood, sparking her shift from science communication to exploring ecological grief. Her book, "Generation Dread," delves into climate anxiety, especially among youth, and highlights the importance of vulnerability in storytelling.
She emphasizes her shift from silent personal distress to amplifying global youth voices facing climate-related futurelessness. Through projects like Climate Conversations, she fosters intergenerational solidarity and innovative community responses. Her initiative, Unthinkable, aims to provide resources to confront climate anxiety effectively. The episode underscores the necessity of internal resilience through mindfulness and actionable external motivation, resonating a powerful call to action against environmental distress with a balanced and compassionate approach.
Generation Dread by Britt Wray - https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Dread-Finding-Purpose-Climate/dp/073528072X
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction by Britt Wray - https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Necrofauna-Science-Ethics-Extinction/dp/1771644729
Unthinkabile (GenDread) - https://www.brittwray.com/gen-dread
The climate baby dilemma - https://gem.cbc.ca/the-climate-baby-dilemma/s01
Britt's Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IlDkCEvsYw
Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/4fOUQfHM_P4
Interview recorded on: 03/09/2024 -- Welcome to Second Nature, a podcast about living with ecological grief. In each episode, Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo takes us on a deeply personal journey about planetary loss, and what we love, what we have lost, and how we move forward. Through a series of engaging, thought-provoking, and moving conversations with incredible guests from around the world, Second Nature is an invitation to come together to share stories of loss, love, despair, and joy, as we learn how to live with – and embrace – ecological grief and mourning.
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In this episode of Second Nature, Living with Ecological Grief, host Ashlee Cunsolo welcomes Britt Wray, an acclaimed author and researcher at Stanford, focusing on climate change's impact on mental health. Britt discusses her pivotal moment of climate awareness when contemplating motherhood, sparking her shift from science communication to exploring ecological grief. Her book, "Generation Dread," delves into climate anxiety, especially among youth, and highlights the importance of vulnerability in storytelling.
She emphasizes her shift from silent personal distress to amplifying global youth voices facing climate-related futurelessness. Through projects like Climate Conversations, she fosters intergenerational solidarity and innovative community responses. Her initiative, Unthinkable, aims to provide resources to confront climate anxiety effectively. The episode underscores the necessity of internal resilience through mindfulness and actionable external motivation, resonating a powerful call to action against environmental distress with a balanced and compassionate approach.
Generation Dread by Britt Wray - https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Dread-Finding-Purpose-Climate/dp/073528072X
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction by Britt Wray - https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Necrofauna-Science-Ethics-Extinction/dp/1771644729
Unthinkabile (GenDread) - https://www.brittwray.com/gen-dread
The climate baby dilemma - https://gem.cbc.ca/the-climate-baby-dilemma/s01
Britt's Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IlDkCEvsYw
Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/4fOUQfHM_P4
Interview recorded on: 03/09/2024 -- Welcome to Second Nature, a podcast about living with ecological grief. In each episode, Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo takes us on a deeply personal journey about planetary loss, and what we love, what we have lost, and how we move forward. Through a series of engaging, thought-provoking, and moving conversations with incredible guests from around the world, Second Nature is an invitation to come together to share stories of loss, love, despair, and joy, as we learn how to live with – and embrace – ecological grief and mourning.