What to do About Eco-Anxiety

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Title
What to do About Eco-Anxiety
Description
"In the mental health community, there’s a new term: “Eco-Anxiety.”

Our guest in this episode, Jay Michaelson, has been thinking hard about climate change for many, many years. Michaelson is a meditation teacher, rabbi, lawyer, activist, and journalist. And he is also a core teacher in the Ten Percent Happier app. He’s covered climate change extensively, and has taught environmental ethics at Boston University Law School and Chicago Theological Seminary. He has also been a leading environmental activist in religious communities.

In this conversation, we talk about what Jay thinks some meditation teachers get wrong about climate change, what he calls the “delusion” that individual habit change can make an impact, how we can use meditation to engage more effectively in the kind of politics he says we need to move the needle on a systemic level, and how to use meditation and deep breathing to handle eco-anxiety."
Creator(s)
Jay Michaelson, Ten Percent Happier
Audience
All audiences/General public
Rights
This information and image were accessed at https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/jay-michaelson-384?emci=ee7f5725-c14c-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=10514582-8751-ee11-9937-00224832e811&ceid=5728615 on 09/13/2023.
Issues
Anxiety and Grief