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Climate Courage

Climate Courage

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“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis. What if it’s our best chance to build a better world?”

Naomi Klein

Reports of wildfires, hurricanes, and extinctions are frightening, yet we rarely hear people talking about the mental health impact of these changes. This hour long show explores how coping with the mental health impacts of climate change can actually make us more effective at combating it. We hear stories about the challenge of facing the facts, and emotions including grief, hopelessness, and fear. Finally, we consider how taking action can actually lead us to greater strength, connection, and impact. Safe Space Radio combines compelling storytelling with practical expert guidance to give you the tools you need to find your own courage.

(Errata: In an earlier version of this show, John Kaiser was incorrectly identified as a professor at UNC, rather he is an instructor at Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina. This has been corrected.)

                                                        

Tips & Strategies for Coping and Getting Engaged (PDF)

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From Our Guests

  • Healing After Irma
    Anne Bequette
  • Environmental Melancholia
    Dr. Renee Lertzman
  • SustainUS
    Aneesa Khan
  • Why I Disrupted the White House Fossil Fuel Panel at the United Nations Climate Talks
    Maia Winkler—Teen Vogue
  • Climate Anxiety Counseling
    Kate Schapira
  • Climate for Health 
    Dr. Lise van Susteren
  • Protect South Portland
    Rachel Burger

Further Reading & Listening

Books

  • An Inconvenient Truth
    Al Gore
  • The Great Derangement
    Amitav Gosh
  • Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Climate Change
    Ed. Paul Hawken
  • This Changes Everything
    Naomi Klein
  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy 
    Joanna Macy
  • Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
    George Marshall
  • The Madhouse Effect
    Michael Mann & Tom Toles
  • The End of Nature
    Bill McKibben
  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene 
    Roy Scranton
  • Climate Shock: Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet 
    Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
  • The Uninhabitable Earth
    David Wallace-Wells

General Resources for Learning About Climate Change

  • Climate Change: How Do We Know?
    NASA Earth Science Communications
  • Global Oneness Project
  • 13 Misconceptions About Global Warming (Video)
    Derek Muller
  • Our Climate, Our Future
  • One Thing You Can Do—Know Your Climate Facts
    Susan Shain & Esther Horvath—New York Time
  • Climate Change Myths
    Skeptical Science

Climate Change & Mental Health

  • Climate Change’s Toll on Mental Health
    American Psychological Association
  • First Step to Stop Eco-Grieving Over Climate Change? Admit There’s a Problem.
    Judy Fahys—NPR
  • Climate Change and Mental Health: Risks, Impacts, and Priority Actions
    Katie Hayes et al.—International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • What Psychotherapy Can Do for the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis 
    Caroline Hickman—The Conversation
  • How Hope and Doubt Effect Climate Change Mobilization
    Jennifer R. Marlon, et al.—Frontiers in Communication
  • We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change
    Kate Marvel—OnBeing
  • Scientists Share Their Grief, Anger, and Hope Over Climate Change (Video)
    Peter Sinclair—Yale Climate Connections
  • Climate Lab Playlist (videos)
    Vox
  • Why Climate Change Does Not Scare Us (Yet)
    Elke U. Weber—Climatic Change
  • Climate Change in the American Mind
    Yale Center for Climate Change Communications
  • Coronavirus Doubters Follow Climate Denial Playbook
    Yale Climate Connections

Talking About Climate Change

  • How to Talk Effectively About Climate Change
    Max Boykoff—Scientific American
  • Reassessing Emotion in Climate Change Communication
    Daniel Chapman, Brian Lickel, and Ezra Markowitz—Nature Climate Change
  • The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It
    Katherine Hayhoe—TED Talk
  • 6 Tips for Talking to Kids About Climate Change
    Anya Kamenetz—NPR
  • Is There a Climate ‘Spiral of Silence’ in America?
    Edward Maibach et al.—Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
  • How to Talk About Climate Change so People Will Listen
    Charles C. Mann—The Atlantic
  • The Secret to Talking About Climate Change (Video)
    Our Climate, Our Future
  • The Role of Emotion in Global Warming Policy Support and Opposition
    Nicholas Smith and Andy Leiserowitz—Risk Analysis
  • Children’s Books About Climate Change
    Yale Climate Connections

Climate Justice

  • Lessons from 40 Years of Documenting Environmental Racism 
    Dr. Robert Bullard—The Revelator
  • 7 Young Indigenous Activists Standing Up for Their Communities
    Jackie Menjivar—DoSomething.org
  • Carbon Majors Cannot Put Their Interests Before Humanity’s Survival
    Kumi Naidoo—Amnesty International
  • Why Climate Change is Anti-Justice (Video)
    PBS Digital Studio
  • The Health Impacts of Climate-Related Migration
    P Schwerdtle et al.—BMC Medicine
  • I Survived Climate Disaster, But I Don’t Want to Be a Climate Statistic
    Marinel Ubaldo—Teen Vogue

Helpful Organizations

  • Climate Action
  • Climate for Health
  • Earth Guardians
  • Energy Justice Network
  • Fossil Free
  • Institute for a Sustainable Future
  • Movement Generation
  • NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program
  • Our Climate Voices
  • Project Drawdown
  • Sunrise Movement
  • SustainUS
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
  • Zero Hour
  • 350.org

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