A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep your Cool on a Warming Planet: A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep your Cool on a Warming Planet, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2020

Ray normalises the diversity of emotional experiences people can face when encountering climate change, validates and advocates engaging with them and offers a range of self-care and action-oriented guidance for helping respond to them. The chapter first discusses the relations and tensions between...

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Published in:Australian journal of environmental education 2021, Vol.37 (3), p.346-348
Main Author: Verlie, Blanche
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Activism
Activists
Activities of daily living
Advocacy
Anxiety
Burnout
Capitalism
Climate
Climate action
Climate change
Climate change communication
Climate change research
Climate science
Colonialism
Communication
Communication Research
Emotions
Guidance
Interpersonal Communication
Justice
Mindfulness
Mythology
Neoliberalism
Oppression
Racial Differences
Resilience (Psychology)
Social Change
Social Systems
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Summary:Ray normalises the diversity of emotional experiences people can face when encountering climate change, validates and advocates engaging with them and offers a range of self-care and action-oriented guidance for helping respond to them. The chapter first discusses the relations and tensions between climate science and ecological emotions, and then outlines some key findings from climate change communication research. Advocating for pleasurable forms of activism, building relationships with others and for deconstructing the self-perpetuating myth of personal inefficacy, this chapter is crucial reading for people feeling overwhelmed, disempowered, helpless, ineffective, or otherwise confused about how they can contribute to addressing climate change.
ISSN:0814-0626
2049-775X
DOI:10.1017/aee.2021.13