⚡ Releasing tomorrow ⚡ Our new episode with Eco-Anxious Stories features host Rachel Malena-Chan and Faith Toran, the Communications Coordinator for #Climate Smart MSF. ➡️ Set a reminder: spoti.fi/3HQtE7n ✅

In our new #podcast with Eco-Anxious Stories, Faith - MSF #Climate Smart Comms. Coordinator - tells us about working at the intersection of #climateaction and #humanitarian care.🎙️ #ListenNow as she weaves together local and global perspectives. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7tQxTr…

Look who has the mic! Faith D. Toran I'm so lucky to work with a fantastic team - they can do all the things. Please check it out William Gagnon Raluca Radu carol devine Fabiano Sartori Maria Guevara, MD MSc DTMH Stephen Cornish climate sanctuary Good Grief Network @MaryHeglar @ClimatePsych Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land

You’re feeling the weather do weird things. You’re buying an air purifier to help with wildfire season. You’re wondering why you’re supposed to just go to work tomorrow like everything’s normal. You’re not alone. It’s time to name this thing we’re all feeling: climate distress.

New research on youth and eco-anxiety in our home country of Canada!

We've already discovered enough fossil fuels to wreck our climate and make life unliveable for millions. Licensing more oil and gas wells is beyond absurd — it's a crime against humanity.

Has a friend opened up to you about climate distress? If you're not a trained therapist, a conversation like that can leave you scrambling: how should I respond? How should I NOT respond? Let's walk through it with @laUra3Schmidt at Good Grief Network here bit.ly/gendread220223

The danger of viewing climate emotions from a neoliberal and western lens is the pathology of adaptive and fair responses to collapsing living systems. This has started to lead to talk of individualized “treatments” completely void of systems change.

Thanks The New York Times for naming us one of the best podcasts to help tackle climate anxiety – also shoutouts to @WeAreDrilled 💕Sassy (not sweet) Sarah💕 Outrage + Optimism and others. nytimes.com/2023/02/23/art…

Neoclassical economists cannot deal with the reality of the ecological crisis because nature, despite being the basis and context of all production, is literally *external* to their model of the economy. It’s like trying to sail a ship with no knowledge of the sea.

Under capitalism, four times more productive capacity is mobilized to produce SUVs than to produce public transit. In the middle of an ecological emergency. "Rational" and "efficient" are not words I would use to describe this arrangement.

Just got this in the mail today and started reading it, and it's SO GOOD. "To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable." -Rebecca Solnit

Wow – what a powerful visual. Combining the warming stripes with "generational icons" really brings this #ClimateChange data to life and tells a compelling story. #IPCC #AR6

"Remember that those who have power & seem invulnerable are in fact quite vulnerable. Their power depends on the obedience of others, & when those others begin withholding that obedience, begin defying authority, that power at the top turns out to be very fragile.” —Howard Zinn

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Hopping on this app once more to share a great piece created for us by researcher panupihkala. He graciously worked with us to reflect on meaning-making and our eco-emotional journeys, and we looked at his latest model for eco-anxiety through the lens of story. Linked below!