What happens when climate despair turns into action?
Climate Connections

What happens when climate despair turns into action?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20261 min

A 10-step support program helps people acknowledge the severity of climate change, sit with uncertainty, and build the resilience to make a difference. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. As the climate warms, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires are all becoming more extreme. For many people, this daunting reality brings up a lot of emotions.

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Hopelessness, anxiety, overwhelm, isolation is a really big one too. But I think despair is really the biggest one that I hear most. Kurt Shepard is a counselor and a facilitator with the Good Grief Network, a nonprofit that helps people work through their emotions about environmental harm.

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Your grief and despair and anxiety is a healthy, functioning response to the destruction of our planet. We are all feeling it, but we're not talking about it. So the network runs online and in-person support groups, where people work through

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