S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing?

Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis? 

Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger. 

Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs shadolitepodcast@gmail.com.

References:

• Its Not Just You, Tori Tsui

• Climate Anxiety: An Illness of the System, Ayisha Siddiqa

• No Good Alone, Rayne Fisher Quann

• Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, Caroline Hickman et al.

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