num_pages: 216
description: A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The climate generationlate millennials and iGen or Generation Zis demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planets environmental problems expect to encounter challenges but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation. Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an existential tool kit for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology sociology social movements mindfulness and the environmental humanities Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt resist burnout and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generationand perhaps the rest of usas we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time. 
language: English
title: A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
publisher: University of California Press