The Nature of Nurture

BONUS: The Climate Crisis is a Psychological Crisis, an interview with One Green Thing founder and CEO Heather White

Episode Summary

Your host Leslie sits down with climate activist Heather White to talk about “eco anxiety,” and the fears that many people have - especially young people - about the future of the planet. The whole season comes full circle in this final bonus episode as Leslie and Heather explore the connections between global warming, the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and how individual people respond to global circumstances.

Episode Notes

Connect with Heather: OneGreenThing.org @OneGreenThing on Instagram @MyOneGreenThing on Twitter

Links From This Episode:

• The book Leslie’s mother got for her when she was 19 years old that awakened her interest in physics was Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hyperspace-michio-kaku/1138748797). Some of her other favorite titles are The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (http://www.briangreene.org/the-elegant-universe/), A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brief-history-of-time-stephen-hawking/1100328875), and Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/relativity-albert-einstein/1100059699). 
• CNN - the Google satellite link, forty years of climate change time-lapse: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/04/15/google-earth-timelapse-zw-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/business-google/
• www.350.org  
• An article on the connection between climate change and covid: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/02/covid-19-and-the-climate-crisis-are-part-of-the-same-battle
• An article about people deciding not to have children because of the climate crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/climate-apocalypse-fears-stopping-people-having-children-study
• The work of David Quammen: https://www.davidquammen.com/
• Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/
• The Sunrise Movement: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/?ms=SunriseMovement-WeAreTheClimateRevolution
• The Scientific American article Leslie mentions: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/therapists-are-reckoning-with-eco-anxiety/
• The image Heather references about the koala that has “mental health issues” https://www.instagram.com/p/CN80qhPJY2P/
• Some additional information about Freddie Gray: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/freddie-gray-death-haunts-man-filmed-video-baltimore
• Some additional information about Eric Garner: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/04/i-cant-breathe-eric-garner-chokehold-death-video