• David Montgomery's article in Washington Post draws from climate scientists, activists and writers to explore the notion of hope in the face of the relentlessly macabre news about the state of the global climate. This article asks what action might be sparked if we lean into the pain of witnessing and experiencing climate disasters?
• Poet, Naomi Shihab Nye tells a story of a very unusual arctic spell of weather in San Antonio where she lives. After witnessing the confusion of dove's around her home in response to the cold, she does what she can to save at least one of them.
• Birder and naturalist J. Drew Lanham explores what it might mean to see ourselves magnified in nature and what this loosening of our own individuality might mean for how we understand our impact and action.
• The crumbling notion of anthropocentrism is central to many of these creatives, environmentalist scientists and activists expressions of hope. Hope seems to be found, for them, in the notions of laying down selfhood whilst taking ownership over individual acts of improvement.  Acknowledging that the broader solutions to climate may be beyond our reach until we first re-orient our lived relationship with nature and the Earth.
• The key principle here is that 'hope is action'. Rather than hope being a tool to propel action. Hope is also uncoupled from optimism; that is, hope is less about believing something will turn out well and more about understanding the purposefulness of your acts, your beliefs, and your words as you engage with the climate crisis.
• The article closes by suggesting that 'grief is one of the great unacknowledged paths to hope and compassion'. Environmental humanities professor and podcaster, Jennifer Atkinson explains that we need to allow ourselves to stay with the despair. She highlights the cognitive distortions that happen when we focus on seeking the answer, or abolishing of our own sense of loss, fear and failure. Indeed, Atkinson believes that hope takes root through the embodiment of despair. Read this wonderful and thought provoking piece in full here.

Facing It Podcast by Jennifer Atkinson

• A heartfelt podcast on the emotional burden of climate change, the paralysis that can occur in the face of the imensity of the problem and the depths of it's intersectional impacts. Atkinson explores the necessity of feeling into this grief and anxiety if we wish to do anything real about the climate crisis. The podcast explores climate emotions, hope, uncertainty, and our existential angst in the face of continued inaction on climate. Download and listen from Apple Podcasts here.

• Sally Weintrobe speaks to the cognitive distortions individuals and societies tend to engage in to protect themselves from the climate crisis, but goes on to normalise how the experience of anxiety in the face of climate collapse is the most reasonable response.
• Weintrobe speaks about the ways she protects her own emotional wellbeing in the face of the climate crisis and the importance of community in sitting with climate anxiety.
• The idea of a 'culture of un-care' is explored, and how beginning to feel into a real care for the needs of the earth takes humans beyond our individualistic needs. Listen in full here.

      Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action

• 21-year-old climate activist, Clover Hogan, and Climate Psychology Researcher, Caroline Hickman, speak at the Natural History Museum on emotions as catalysts for change.
• Hickman explains that challenging self-centric modes of thinking is why psychology needs to be a core part of tackling the climate crisis.
• Hogan explains that because neoliberalism has individualised the climate crisis, our greatest strength in activism is om the coming together as a community to honour our shared experiences of climate anxieties. Watch in full here.