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description: A Guide to Eco-Anxiety is a manifesto for action connection and hope. Showing how to harness anxiety for positive action it also provides effective ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint. The most powerful thing we can do to combat climate change is to talk about it and act collectively. But despite it being an emergency most people dont bring climate change into conversation in everyday life. This book explores the health impact of experiencing eco-anxiety grief and trauma and signposts recommended treatments and therapies. It also tackles practical issues including: *why it's important to reduce plastic waste; *parenting and the choice to have a family; *which is more effective to bring your carbon footprint down go vegan or fly less? A Guide to Eco-Anxiety will teach you to cultivate a pragmatic form of hope by offering a dynamic toolkit packed with practical ways to connect with community and systemic support self-care practices to ease the symptoms of anxiety and strategies to spread awareness and  crucially  bring about change.
language: English
title: A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health
publisher: Watkins