<p>In this episode of the podcast, Brooke chats with Britt Wray - author of <em>Generation Dread</em> and a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Britt talks about her work around eco-anxiety, the reasons and extent to which different people feel it, and the tools people can deploy to harness it and achieve positive, climate-friendly outcomes.</p> <p>Some of the topics discussed include:</p> <ul> <li>The drivers of eco-anxiety, media hysteria, and the evolutionary experience of an existential threat.</li> <li>Why do some communities experience higher levels of eco-anxiety than others?</li> <li>The role of time perception and present bias in eco-anxiety, and why it can be compared to Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.</li> <li>Why climate change is a unique ever-evolving challenge for us to contend with psychologically.</li> <li>Tools to help us acknowledge and accept eco-anxiety as being real and valid, and move beyond a state of anxiety-induced paralysis.</li> </ul>