Climate Anxiety Expert Sarah Jaquette Ray, Feb. 11

[Stonebrook, Shelley J]

If you haven't already reserved your free tickets, Spring Creek Project invites you to join us as climate anxiety expert Sarah Jaquette Ray speaks at PRAx tomorrow, February 11, at 5:30 p.m.

Ray will explore how we can keep showing up for the world — without losing ourselves — amid the weight of overlapping environmental and social crises. Ray is a professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. She works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions, particularly among youth activists and in higher education.

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Drawing on her book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, Sarah Jaquette Ray will focus her presentation on the role of our emotions in climate justice advocacy. What does the story of apocalypse do to our capacity to respond wisely? How can we effectively show up for each other and the planet not give up from burn out or despair? Distilling wisdom from across many fields and traditions, Dr. Ray will offer an "existential toolkit" for the climate generation.

Praise for Ray's Work

"This book makes an overdue and very welcome contribution to the world, where the mental health impacts and cascading losses that climate change generates are increasing rapidly. It synthesizes a range of psychological theory, personal experience, Buddhist philosophy and activist self-care wisdom. This is organized into a series of strategies that can help people of any age to play the long game of fighting for climate justice."

— Australian Journal of Environmental Education

"It would be foolish not to freak out over climate change. But it would be sad if that despair kept you from working hard on this crisis, not to mention enjoying life on what is still a beautiful planet. This book has some wise strategies for finding a useful balance."

— Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

"Ever laid awake at night gripped with panic about the future? Ever wondered how to make sense of your path in light of the forecasted climate futures? Bold and beautiful, this hands-on companion is essential reading for wrestling with the most important issue of our time."

— Kari Marie Norgaard, author of Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

"Written for the Gen Z 'climate generation,' this book is essential reading for anyone despairing over our current climate emergency and future of turbulent change. Ray’s strategies offer deep and practical ways to cultivate collective resilience and creative adaptation, and even thrive in a climate-changed world."

— Leslie Davenport, author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change

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This event is presented by the Spring Creek Project and OSU's Sustainability Double Degree, with support from:

• OSU's Sustainability Office
• OSU's Contemplative Studies Initiative
• OSU's Center for the Future of Forests and Society

• Grass Roots Books, who will be on hand with copies of Ray's titles (a book signing will follow the event)