Coping with eco-anxiety

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Eco-anxiety is quickly becoming a shared experience for people across the world, especially young people. In this episode of WOECWD, Bri chats with Sasha Adamova from the Alberta Youth Leaders for Environmental Education and Sebastien Rioux from Newo Global Energy about their experiences with eco-anxiety and their advice on how to work through it.

What's in this episode?

0:35 - learn more about eco-anxiety

3:00 - Sasha and Sebastien’s background

5:33 - When was the first time you experiences eco-anxiety and what prompted it?

10:57 - How do both of you deal with your climate anxiety and do you have any recommendations for how others can deal with theirs?

20:20 - Do you find that you're able to take your climate anxiety and turn it into action, and if so, what action are you taking?

Resources

Mental health and our changing climate - https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/mental-health-climate.pdf

Survey of 10,000 young people's thoughts and feelings about climate change, and government response - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3918955

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