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29.10.2025   at 11:15 - 12:15

Navigating Climate Anxiety and the Climate-Mental Health Nexus

Anthropogenic environmental changes have become the number one threat to public health, and research shows that climate anxiety and distress are on the rise. At the same time, the growing field of planetary health reveals a surprising truth; that embracing climate distress can help address both mental health and ecological problems. In this talk, Stanford Human and Planetary Health researcher and award-winning science communicator Britt Wray, PhD. will explore how today's ecological crises can push us into a state of grief, numbness, or fatalism. She will also reveal how this distress can mobilize and transform us, emphasizing what we can do to control it and its power to spark pro-social change, while highlighting ideas and innovations for protecting mental health and wellbeing along the way. Dr Britt Wray is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on climate change and mental health in the Stanford School of Medicine and the bestselling author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety.
29 Oct