“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis. What if it’s our best chance to build a better world?”
Naomi Klein

Reports of wildfires, hurricanes, and extinctions are frightening, yet we rarely hear people talking about the mental health impact of these changes. This hour long show explores how coping with the mental health impacts of climate change can actually make us more effective at combating it. We hear stories about the challenge of facing the facts, and emotions including grief, hopelessness, and fear. Finally, we consider how taking action can actually lead us to greater strength, connection, and impact. Safe Space Radio combines compelling storytelling with practical expert guidance to give you the tools you need to find your own courage.

                                                        

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From Our Guests

• Healing After Irma
  
  Anne Bequette
  
• Environmental Melancholia
  
  Dr. Renee Lertzman
  
• SustainUS
  
  Aneesa Khan
  
• Why I Disrupted the White House Fossil Fuel Panel at the United Nations Climate Talks
  
  Maia Winkler—Teen Vogue
  
• Climate Anxiety Counseling
  
  Kate Schapira
  
• Climate for Health 
  
  Dr. Lise van Susteren
  
• Protect South Portland
  
  Rachel Burger
  

Further Reading & Listening

Books

• An Inconvenient Truth
  
  Al Gore
  
• The Great Derangement
  
  Amitav Gosh
  
• Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Climate Change
  
  Ed. Paul Hawken
  
• This Changes Everything
  
  Naomi Klein
  
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy 
  
  Joanna Macy
  
• Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
  
  George Marshall
  
• The Madhouse Effect
  
  Michael Mann & Tom Toles
  
• The End of Nature
  
  Bill McKibben
  
• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene 
  
  Roy Scranton
  
• Climate Shock: Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet 
  
  Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
  
• The Uninhabitable Earth
  
  David Wallace-Wells
  

General Resources for Learning About Climate Change

• Climate Change: How Do We Know?
  
  NASA Earth Science Communications
  
• Global Oneness Project
  
• 13 Misconceptions About Global Warming (Video)
  
  Derek Muller
  
• Our Climate, Our Future
  
• One Thing You Can Do—Know Your Climate Facts
  
  Susan Shain & Esther Horvath—New York Time
  
• Climate Change Myths
  
  Skeptical Science
  

Climate Change & Mental Health

• Climate Change’s Toll on Mental Health
  
  American Psychological Association
  
• First Step to Stop Eco-Grieving Over Climate Change? Admit There’s a Problem.
  
  Judy Fahys—NPR
  
• Climate Change and Mental Health: Risks, Impacts, and Priority Actions
  
  Katie Hayes et al.—International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  
• What Psychotherapy Can Do for the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis 
  
  Caroline Hickman—The Conversation
  
• How Hope and Doubt Effect Climate Change Mobilization
  
  Jennifer R. Marlon, et al.—Frontiers in Communication
  
• We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change
  
  Kate Marvel—OnBeing
  
• Scientists Share Their Grief, Anger, and Hope Over Climate Change (Video)
  
  Peter Sinclair—Yale Climate Connections
  
• Climate Lab Playlist (videos)
  
  Vox
  
• Why Climate Change Does Not Scare Us (Yet)
  
  Elke U. Weber—Climatic Change
  
• Climate Change in the American Mind
  
  Yale Center for Climate Change Communications
  
• Coronavirus Doubters Follow Climate Denial Playbook
  
  Yale Climate Connections
  

Talking About Climate Change

• How to Talk Effectively About Climate Change
  
  Max Boykoff—Scientific American
  
• Reassessing Emotion in Climate Change Communication
  
  Daniel Chapman, Brian Lickel, and Ezra Markowitz—Nature Climate Change
  
• The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It
  
  Katherine Hayhoe—TED Talk
  
• 6 Tips for Talking to Kids About Climate Change
  
  Anya Kamenetz—NPR
  
• Is There a Climate ‘Spiral of Silence’ in America?
  
  Edward Maibach et al.—Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
  
• How to Talk About Climate Change so People Will Listen
  
  Charles C. Mann—The Atlantic
  
• The Secret to Talking About Climate Change (Video)
  
  Our Climate, Our Future
  
• The Role of Emotion in Global Warming Policy Support and Opposition
  
  Nicholas Smith and Andy Leiserowitz—Risk Analysis
  
• Children’s Books About Climate Change
  
  Yale Climate Connections
  

Climate Justice

• Lessons from 40 Years of Documenting Environmental Racism 
  
  Dr. Robert Bullard—The Revelator
  
• 7 Young Indigenous Activists Standing Up for Their Communities
  
  Jackie Menjivar—DoSomething.org
  
• Carbon Majors Cannot Put Their Interests Before Humanity’s Survival
  
  Kumi Naidoo—Amnesty International
  
• Why Climate Change is Anti-Justice (Video)
  
  PBS Digital Studio
  
• The Health Impacts of Climate-Related Migration
  
  P Schwerdtle et al.—BMC Medicine
  
• I Survived Climate Disaster, But I Don’t Want to Be a Climate Statistic
  
  Marinel Ubaldo—Teen Vogue
  

Helpful Organizations

• Climate Action
  
• Climate for Health
  
• Earth Guardians
  
• Energy Justice Network
  
• Fossil Free
  
• Institute for a Sustainable Future
  
• Movement Generation
  
• NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program
  
• Our Climate Voices
  
• Project Drawdown
  
• Sunrise Movement
  
• SustainUS
  
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
  
• Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
  
• Zero Hour
  
• 350.org
  

We’d love to hear from you! If you have a story about climate courage—or a comment for one of our guests—please leave us a voicemail at 617-600-8419.

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