I need this book because I want to have better guiding principles to manage my own feelings and better tools to engage with the people around me about the climate crisis. I’m also looking for ways to translate my fears and worries into direct action that contributes to long-term solutions instead of just ruminating
We can't talk about what is happening on the outside without talking about what is happening on the inside. Conversations around climate change are more important now than ever and considering the mental health implications must be a foundational part of these conversations. From my perspective, the mental block people have to knowing how to deal with these emotions often prevent them from engaging with these difficult conversations. And that's why books like these are so important to help us face these challenges head on.
I have been a life-long climate activist and am at a cross roads on my work. I am looking for inspiration and guidance as to my next steps where I can show up to do the most good in the world. This book would support me in that work.
The new self-help book Facing the Climate Emergency would help me deepen my understanding of climate psychology so that I can remain resilient and understand the barriers and opportunities for climate communication with others. We need to address climate emotions in order to build strong communities for climate action and mutual support.
Yep – It really looked like Mars here yesterday. I’ve been in Texas with wildfires raging in Mexico and have talked with friends about wildfires in California. Experiencing Canadian wildfires and NYC metro’s worst air quality ever recorded was a bit of a shocker. Be safe out there if you're dealing with this firsthand.
I’m thankful for the support of a growing Gen Dread community. We have a lot of work to do.
It's unreasonable to want someone to tell me what to do & how to behave to help address the climate crisis. But that's what I want. So much of the time, I learn by reading. Perhaps this'll help.
I read the first edition, and I will read the second one for updates! I loved MKS' frankness about her own feelings, even the ones that aren't very pretty. This is the book, the spirit, we all need right now. We need to take care of each other, live in the moment and enjoy it, and never, ever, ever give up!
Thank you! The wildfires and smoke have been adding to my climate distress as I worry about the health of so many communities on both sides of the border. Reading this newsletter is part of my internal activism/self-care. Thank you for continuing to build community here. I will be watching for the survey.
++ Noone should be allowed to injure the environment of any other. 1.5 deg Centigrade is 2.7 Fahrenheit, almost three degrees. The first time I saw THAT pointed out was just the other day on the tube. So where summer days were a bearable 90, they'd now be 93, definitely alot air shimmeringly harder for all but the very skinniest. Imagine not telling Americans about the problem in degrees F, but in the smaller, less impressive Centigrade, so unless they're trying to milk environmentalism for votes, SOMEBODY call public relations. ++ "One of the hottest" geological periods was the Proterozoic, when the"average temperature", per Goggle, was 90 F. Currently it's 60. So things can get much hotter. ++ I'm still waiting for them to broadcast about the 19th century experiments involving glass jars and gases, or, someone with louder voice to take my SUGGESTION to put a sunlamp on one end of a tube with a recording thermometer on the other, and vary the proportion of CO2 inside the tube. Put it all on the web, and sell kits for those interested in reproducing it. ++ "One of the Earth's" hottest geological periods was the Proterozoic, when the"average" temperature was 90 F. Now its60. So it could get alot hotter. ++ Here's another measure of Warming. Where I grew up, when it snowed, it stuck all Winter. Now, retired and three hundred miles North, it barely ever lasts days. Pretty sure THAT could charted precisely. There is no other reasonable explanation for Global Warming being offered besides Greenhouse Gases. ++ Beyond the general problems of rising temperatures, Greenhouse gases and relatively slowly rising sea levels, we're facing the way greater threats of CONTINENT SPANNING storms, (and more of them), calving of giant icebergs off Antarctica, wildfires, and the escape of huge amounts of methane from the thawing of Siberian and Canadian tundra. ++ We need Carbon Fee & Dividend, where the tax on carbon emissions is returned to the people, or to particular incentivizations. Cf Citizens Climate Lobby. ++ We need to support Evacuated Insulation, like in fridges, only for windows & walls, magnetic bearings, like in maglev, in East Asia, France & Disneyland(?!), motion activated, temperature programmable faucets, pedal, and playground merry-go-round electricity generation, giving the extreme poor, those not yet on the grid and those paying for their exercise a modicum of hvac, smokeless cooking, lighting and electronic communications, & kids a chance to contribute. Manoj Bhargava makes the bikes in India. ++ Also raised, solar rooved sidewalks/bike paths, paid for by businesses for the right to connect to them, freeing the ground floor level for parking and FROM bikes & pedestrians. No more going round and round looking for parking. This will encourage people living in more condensed situations, closer to work. ++ Flood all the depressions with canals from the sea to cool the downwind areas. Tidal Power, solar sea stills, fill giant balloons with all the flood water and float them to the desert, require color coding of plastic bottles to make sorting easier, DOCUMENT the reported greater subsidization of fossil fuels over renewables. ++ Very importantly, Geothermal is an existential threat to all humanity. We'd destroy the Global Arch, once everyone does this, and the move is already industrialized, while fission atomic power will cause us to evaporate the atmosphere away. Once they perfect fusion, it'll be all over on the blink of an eye. People are going to learn how to live more sustainably. ++ Win-Win, Top Dead Center, Infinitely Transformative, Perfect Marriage Of Freedom With An Eye For Justice And Justice With An Eye For Freedom, Ranked Ballot, (voters ranking candidates in order of preference to find the most perfect compromise), would settle all questions on a case by case, GERMAINE level, including a (super majority supported), end to Global Warming. ++ Sharing the Work, the workweek attached to the unemployment rate, would make economic activity way more efficient. STW would end all, foot-dragging, make-work, planned obsolescence, compulsive careerism, unsustainable growthism, planned obsolescence, compulsive careerism, unsustainable growthism, and hence, Global Warming, end the NEED for most welfare, bureaucracy and, hopefully, military spending, so increasing the relative cost of all mechanisms of oppression as to make them prohibitive, mean no corporation would ever again be considered too big to fail, prevent an organized labor circular firing squad from chasing increasingly empty dollars into the ground (while dragging Freedom-Democracy along with them) & give us a safer, fairer and more frugal path thru future pandemics. Workers, being always assured of more work, would be motivated to be as COOPERATIVELY productive as possible, like Amish, putting up a barn for neighbors. ++ Unless there's not yet SUCH an existentially threatening situation that you're still more interested in using Global Warming to get reelected than in solving the problem, but there's ads on the tube now for dried laundry detergent pads (Earth Breeze) & by the time we've accomplished all the above, mostly requiring no political resolution, we may just be facing an ice age and the problem will be how to house the homeless. ++ Zoe Morgan Sydney, Movement for Fulfilled Democracy, USA, Planet Earth, Some Galaxy Speeding Away Into Nothingness
I need this book because I am struggling to manage my climate anxiety and also figure out how to lead my young children through this crisis!
I need this book because I want to have better guiding principles to manage my own feelings and better tools to engage with the people around me about the climate crisis. I’m also looking for ways to translate my fears and worries into direct action that contributes to long-term solutions instead of just ruminating
We can't talk about what is happening on the outside without talking about what is happening on the inside. Conversations around climate change are more important now than ever and considering the mental health implications must be a foundational part of these conversations. From my perspective, the mental block people have to knowing how to deal with these emotions often prevent them from engaging with these difficult conversations. And that's why books like these are so important to help us face these challenges head on.
I have been a life-long climate activist and am at a cross roads on my work. I am looking for inspiration and guidance as to my next steps where I can show up to do the most good in the world. This book would support me in that work.
The new self-help book Facing the Climate Emergency would help me deepen my understanding of climate psychology so that I can remain resilient and understand the barriers and opportunities for climate communication with others. We need to address climate emotions in order to build strong communities for climate action and mutual support.
Yep – It really looked like Mars here yesterday. I’ve been in Texas with wildfires raging in Mexico and have talked with friends about wildfires in California. Experiencing Canadian wildfires and NYC metro’s worst air quality ever recorded was a bit of a shocker. Be safe out there if you're dealing with this firsthand.
I’m thankful for the support of a growing Gen Dread community. We have a lot of work to do.
It's unreasonable to want someone to tell me what to do & how to behave to help address the climate crisis. But that's what I want. So much of the time, I learn by reading. Perhaps this'll help.
I value and greatly admire your efforts, respect.
I concur with the imperative in this letter; to build community.
It becomes more evident that government isn't. Civil Servants are neither.
Kakistocracy(the ancient Greeks knew how to name a thing. And with pungency)
Building community is the only way forward.
Our dire situation is NOW.
I read the first edition, and I will read the second one for updates! I loved MKS' frankness about her own feelings, even the ones that aren't very pretty. This is the book, the spirit, we all need right now. We need to take care of each other, live in the moment and enjoy it, and never, ever, ever give up!
I need this book because I need help to manage my climate anxiety and have never read this, so the updated edition would be great!
Power to the advocates and healers who are determined to protect our planet - thank you.
Thank you! The wildfires and smoke have been adding to my climate distress as I worry about the health of so many communities on both sides of the border. Reading this newsletter is part of my internal activism/self-care. Thank you for continuing to build community here. I will be watching for the survey.
++ Noone should be allowed to injure the environment of any other. 1.5 deg Centigrade is 2.7 Fahrenheit, almost three degrees. The first time I saw THAT pointed out was just the other day on the tube. So where summer days were a bearable 90, they'd now be 93, definitely alot air shimmeringly harder for all but the very skinniest. Imagine not telling Americans about the problem in degrees F, but in the smaller, less impressive Centigrade, so unless they're trying to milk environmentalism for votes, SOMEBODY call public relations. ++ "One of the hottest" geological periods was the Proterozoic, when the"average temperature", per Goggle, was 90 F. Currently it's 60. So things can get much hotter. ++ I'm still waiting for them to broadcast about the 19th century experiments involving glass jars and gases, or, someone with louder voice to take my SUGGESTION to put a sunlamp on one end of a tube with a recording thermometer on the other, and vary the proportion of CO2 inside the tube. Put it all on the web, and sell kits for those interested in reproducing it. ++ "One of the Earth's" hottest geological periods was the Proterozoic, when the"average" temperature was 90 F. Now its60. So it could get alot hotter. ++ Here's another measure of Warming. Where I grew up, when it snowed, it stuck all Winter. Now, retired and three hundred miles North, it barely ever lasts days. Pretty sure THAT could charted precisely. There is no other reasonable explanation for Global Warming being offered besides Greenhouse Gases. ++ Beyond the general problems of rising temperatures, Greenhouse gases and relatively slowly rising sea levels, we're facing the way greater threats of CONTINENT SPANNING storms, (and more of them), calving of giant icebergs off Antarctica, wildfires, and the escape of huge amounts of methane from the thawing of Siberian and Canadian tundra. ++ We need Carbon Fee & Dividend, where the tax on carbon emissions is returned to the people, or to particular incentivizations. Cf Citizens Climate Lobby. ++ We need to support Evacuated Insulation, like in fridges, only for windows & walls, magnetic bearings, like in maglev, in East Asia, France & Disneyland(?!), motion activated, temperature programmable faucets, pedal, and playground merry-go-round electricity generation, giving the extreme poor, those not yet on the grid and those paying for their exercise a modicum of hvac, smokeless cooking, lighting and electronic communications, & kids a chance to contribute. Manoj Bhargava makes the bikes in India. ++ Also raised, solar rooved sidewalks/bike paths, paid for by businesses for the right to connect to them, freeing the ground floor level for parking and FROM bikes & pedestrians. No more going round and round looking for parking. This will encourage people living in more condensed situations, closer to work. ++ Flood all the depressions with canals from the sea to cool the downwind areas. Tidal Power, solar sea stills, fill giant balloons with all the flood water and float them to the desert, require color coding of plastic bottles to make sorting easier, DOCUMENT the reported greater subsidization of fossil fuels over renewables. ++ Very importantly, Geothermal is an existential threat to all humanity. We'd destroy the Global Arch, once everyone does this, and the move is already industrialized, while fission atomic power will cause us to evaporate the atmosphere away. Once they perfect fusion, it'll be all over on the blink of an eye. People are going to learn how to live more sustainably. ++ Win-Win, Top Dead Center, Infinitely Transformative, Perfect Marriage Of Freedom With An Eye For Justice And Justice With An Eye For Freedom, Ranked Ballot, (voters ranking candidates in order of preference to find the most perfect compromise), would settle all questions on a case by case, GERMAINE level, including a (super majority supported), end to Global Warming. ++ Sharing the Work, the workweek attached to the unemployment rate, would make economic activity way more efficient. STW would end all, foot-dragging, make-work, planned obsolescence, compulsive careerism, unsustainable growthism, planned obsolescence, compulsive careerism, unsustainable growthism, and hence, Global Warming, end the NEED for most welfare, bureaucracy and, hopefully, military spending, so increasing the relative cost of all mechanisms of oppression as to make them prohibitive, mean no corporation would ever again be considered too big to fail, prevent an organized labor circular firing squad from chasing increasingly empty dollars into the ground (while dragging Freedom-Democracy along with them) & give us a safer, fairer and more frugal path thru future pandemics. Workers, being always assured of more work, would be motivated to be as COOPERATIVELY productive as possible, like Amish, putting up a barn for neighbors. ++ Unless there's not yet SUCH an existentially threatening situation that you're still more interested in using Global Warming to get reelected than in solving the problem, but there's ads on the tube now for dried laundry detergent pads (Earth Breeze) & by the time we've accomplished all the above, mostly requiring no political resolution, we may just be facing an ice age and the problem will be how to house the homeless. ++ Zoe Morgan Sydney, Movement for Fulfilled Democracy, USA, Planet Earth, Some Galaxy Speeding Away Into Nothingness