Turning Climate Fear into Action with Anya Kamenetz

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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the subject of climate change? Jessica does.
With weather events and natural disasters getting more severe and seeming to creep closer and closer to her own backyard, Jessica feels overwhelmed, to the point of paralysis, by what one person could possibly do to effect change.
Enter Anya Kamenetz, who writes the newsletter The Golden Hour about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. She covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. Her 5th book is The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network, working on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.
Join Jessica and Anya as they candidly address the politicization of climate change, its isolating consequences, and the urgent call to recognize it as a human issue, not just an environmental one. Anya shines a light on our potential to be part of the solution, turning fear into action. And may have even helped Jessica feel a little less paralyzed and a lot more purpose filled.
Important Links from this episode:
Anya's Newsletter
https://thegoldenhour.substack.com/
More Information on Joanna Macy
https://www.joannamacy.net/main
All We Can Save Project
https://www.allwecansave.earth/
Climate Mental Health Network
https://www.climatementalhealth.net/
Climate Mobilization
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/
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Chapters

1. Climate Change (00:00:00)

2. Climate Despair, Empowerment, and Taking Action (00:04:57)

3. Activism's Role in Climate Change (00:18:36)

4. Personal Conversations and Taking Action (00:25:41)

5. Climate Change (00:32:20)