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

by Sarah Jaquette Ray
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

by Sarah Jaquette Ray

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Overview

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.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520343306
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 04/21/2020
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 394,114
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Embracing Life in the Anthropocene 1

1 Get Schooled on the Role of Emotions in Climate Justice Work 18

2 Cultivate Climate Wisdom 50

3 Claim Your Calling and Scale Your Action 52

4 Hack the Story 80

5 Be Less Right and More in Relation 97

6 Move Beyond Hope, Ditch Guilt, and Laugh More 114

7 Resist Burnout 128

8 Conclusion: Feed What You Want to Grow 137

Acknowledgments 145

Notes 147

Bibliography 177

Index 199

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