How to Ease Climate Anxiety & Turn it into Something Useful

That's Helpful with Ed Stott

This week Earth Day asks us to focus on climate change & the things we can do to make a difference, but it can often feel like an overwhelming problem with minimal solutions & maximum anxiety. So how can we take these paralysing emotions that leave us wanting to bury our head in the sand & turn them into something positive that’s actually helpful?

Associate Professor Leslie Davenport is a Climate Psychology Consultant.

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BOOKS All The Feelings Under The Sun: How to Deal With Climate ChangeEmotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change

TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:52 - Why is this Leslie’s focus? 00:02:00 - Why is it important that we talk about climate change? 00:04:24 - Why is uncertainty so hard for us to deal with as humans? 00:07:33 - Anxiety Vs. climate anxiety 00:10:50 - The window of tolerance 00:13:17 - Breath practices 00:15:55 - Noticing mental habits & internal stories 00:16:46 - Figuring out how you can help 00:21:15 - Noticing if you’re outside of your window of tolerance 00:23:15 - Helping children work through their anxiety 00:27:05 - How to take the negative emotions & make them useful 00:27:51 - Will taking action ease our guilt?