Climate Courage

“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis. What if it’s our best chance to build a better world?”

Naomi Klein

Reports of wildfires, hurricanes, and extinctions are frightening, yet we rarely hear people talking about the mental health impact of these changes. This hour long show explores how coping with the mental health impacts of climate change can actually make us more effective at combating it. We hear stories about the challenge of facing the facts, and emotions including grief, hopelessness, and fear. Finally, we consider how taking action can actually lead us to greater strength, connection, and impact. Safe Space Radio combines compelling storytelling with practical expert guidance to give you the tools you need to find your own courage.

Tips & Strategies for Coping and Getting Engaged (PDF)

Listen to Stories From the Episode

Safe Space Radio · Climate Courage

Resources

From Our Guests

• Healing After Irma
  Anne Bequette
• Environmental Melancholia
  Dr. Renee Lertzman
• SustainUS
  Aneesa Khan
• Why I Disrupted the White House Fossil Fuel Panel at the United Nations Climate Talks
  Maia Winkler—Teen Vogue
• Climate Anxiety Counseling
  Kate Schapira
• Climate for Health 
  Dr. Lise van Susteren
• Protect South Portland
  Rachel Burger

Further Reading & Listening

Books

• An Inconvenient Truth
  Al Gore
• The Great Derangement
  Amitav Gosh
• Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Climate Change
  Ed. Paul Hawken
• This Changes Everything
  Naomi Klein
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy 
  Joanna Macy
• Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
  George Marshall
• The Madhouse Effect
  Michael Mann & Tom Toles
• The End of Nature
  Bill McKibben
• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene 
  Roy Scranton
• Climate Shock: Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet 
  Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
• The Uninhabitable Earth
  David Wallace-Wells

General Resources for Learning About Climate Change