HeyJaredUnthinkable
Britt Wray's newsletter about staying sane in the climate crisis, psychological resilience, and courage for unthinkable times.
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He Quit His Job to Build a University for the Climate Crisis (opens the original)
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a retreat in the UK that was organized by a private foundation around what I can only describe as the rich thematic cocktail of animism, societal collapse, and psycho-social-spiritual transformation. I met many incredible people there who will be popping up on my newsletter in future editions, and was particularly inspired by the work of a journalist and author-turned-university founder named Ben Rawlence. Today I’m going to share the first segment in a t
Your brain on a warming planet (opens the original)
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What weighs 3 pounds, communicates with every part of your body, other beings, as well as the world itself, and is especially vulnerable to our changing climate?The brain — the organ through which we learn, build relationships, apply morality to our actions, adapt, and build resilient societies while facing existential threats. Unsurprisingly, the research on what climate disruption and planetary ill-health does to our brains is grim. I can think of no more crucial information for us to understa
Disaster Recovery Is a Full-Time Job Nobody Trains You For (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, a glacier tip broke off in Nepal after the region experienced some of the warmest temperatures on record, triggering a flood that’s killed over a thousand people, with more than five thousand still missing, injecting stress and trauma into the entire population, with no end in sight. Meanwhile, it feels like the rest of us have already moved on because it’s disappearing from the headlines. We know this pattern: a climate disaster hits, the world pays attention briefly which
A Fresh Eye on What We Can Do Together (opens the original)
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I’ve been inconsistent with this newsletter for a while, and I haven’t known how to explain myself — so let me just say it.Eight months ago, I had a baby, my second. I kept it private, in part because of the sideways looks I’ve gotten before for choosing to have children while spending years researching and talking about how hard climate change presses down on our reproductive decisions. It’s all connected to the fascinating (and at times, crushing) interactions at play between matrescence and e
Are You Climate Authentic — Or Just Climate Anxious? (opens the original)
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As director of CIRCLE, Stanford’s climate-mental health research program, I’ve spent a lot of time recently co-designing a youth-led peer support program with 16-25 year olds navigating a world on fire amid mass disconnection and overstimulation. The program builds “transformational resilience” — the ability to adapt and grow through the climate crisis while channeling distress into care and action, per a Harvard based research group I’m part of. We’ll soon pilot it in Australia with a Field Gui
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