Keeping cool in the face of eco-anxiety with Britt Wray

In this episode of the podcast, Brooke chats with Britt Wray - author of Generation Dread and a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Britt talks about her work around eco-anxiety, the reasons and extent to which different people feel it, and the tools people can deploy to harness it and achieve positive, climate-friendly outcomes. Some of the topics discussed include: The drivers of eco-anxiety, media hysteria, and the evolutionary experience of an existential threat. Why do some communities experience higher levels of eco-anxiety than others? The role of time perception and present bias in eco-anxiety, and why it can be compared to Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Why climate change is a unique ever-evolving challenge for us to contend with psychologically. Tools to help us acknowledge and accept eco-anxiety as being real and valid, and move beyond a state of anxiety-induced paralysis.

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Keeping cool in the face of eco-anxiety with Britt Wray is an episode from The Decision Corner by The Decision Lab.

This episode is 00:41:51 long.

This episode was published on Jul 25, 2022.

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