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Solastalgia: How Climate Impacts Mental Health

By Lise Van Susteren — 2019

Psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren explains “solastalgia” and other aspects of climate anxiety or climate grief.

03:13 min

Falter

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

An original and compelling argument about how to control climate change by conserving the world’s megaforests.

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What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.

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The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was written in 1971 and its message remains increasingly relevant today.

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Why Bother?

Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.

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Prosocial World

Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.

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Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change

Powerful conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists on the most pressing issue of our time.

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‘Hijacked by Anxiety’: How Climate Dread Is Hindering Climate Action

A growing school of psychologists believe the trauma of the climate crisis is a key barrier to change in that it paralyzes people into inaction.

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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice

The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement.

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Climate Action: Fear Hasn’t Motivated People, so Let’s Get Them Excited

To create excitement for the climate movement, we must create actionable incentives.

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