Posted by: Sandy Steinman | April 17, 2023

Why Climate Grief Is an Essential for Climate Action

The Rvelator  reports

Climate activism is most effective when it taps into the pain of grieving instead of repeating statistics that overwhelm people into numbness.

When I read news about the latest IPCC climate assessment report, or predictions of imminent mass extinction, I admit that the statistics — the exact degree of warming, the number of feet sea levels will rise, how many species will die — find fewer footholds in my brain than the overwhelming sorrow they elicit.

Read more at Why Climate Grief Is an Essential for Climate Action • The Revelator


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