A Guide to Eco-Anxiety

How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health

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Pub Date 23 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 2 Jun 2020
Watkins | Watkins Publishing
Science | Self-Help

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The first book to tackle the growing phenomenon of eco-anxiety. Written by a psychoanalyst, with a foreword from Caroline Hickman from the Climate Psychology Alliance, this book offers emotional tools and strategies to ease anxiety by taking positive action on a personal and community level.

A Guide to Eco-Anxiety outlines a manifesto for action, connection and hope. Showing how to harness anxiety for positive action, as well as effective ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint.
The most powerful thing we can do to combat climate change is to talk about it and act collectively. But despite it being an emergency, most people don't bring climate change into conversation in everyday life.

The book explores the health impact of experiencing eco-anxiety, grief and trauma, and signposts recommended treatments and therapies. It also tackles practical issues such as: why it's important to reduce plastic waste; parenting and the choice to have a family; which is more effective to bring your carbon footprint down, go vegan or fly less?

The book will cultivate a pragmatic form of hope by offering a dynamic toolkit packed with practical ways to connect with community and systemic support, self-care practices to ease the symptoms of anxiety, and strategies to spread awareness and - crucially - bring about change.
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This is another sobering and grim account of climatology and where we are as species on the planet. Our species as a whole is making the planet warmer and accelerating the sixth extinction rate at an alarmingly quicker rate. Thank goodness coronavirus has decreased some of the carbon footprint but it is only temporarily while most of the planet is quarantined and or in self-isolation. Has some good advice to help bring down your own carbon footprint including becoming vegetarian/vegan.

This was well researched and I will definitely be buying a hardcopy when it becomes available to add to my fascination of climatology and earth studies. This has some of the same sobering information as the book, "the Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert," "The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells," just to name a few of the books I have already read on the subject. I am horrified but also fascinated by it and this book doesn't disappoint.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I will definitely be getting a copy for myself when it is published and telling people about this.

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