A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (eBook)

How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

Sarah Jaquette Ray (Autor)

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2020
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97472-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation.
 
Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time.

 

Inhalt

Introduction: Embracing Life in the Anthropocene
1. Get Schooled on the Role of Emotions in Climate
Justice Work
2. Cultivate Climate Wisdom
3. Claim Your Calling and Scale Your Action
4. Hack the Story
5. Be Less Right and More in Relation
6. Move Beyond Hope, Ditch Guilt, and Laugh More
7. Resist Burnout
8. Conclusion: Feed What You Want to Grow
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • books for gen z • Burnout • climate change • ecolit • Environmental Studies • global warming • green guilt • Greta Thunberg • how to save the planet • navigating crisis • self care for activists • Social Justice • sustainable future • taking action • Youth movements
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97472-7 / 0520974727
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97472-2 / 9780520974722