Eco-Anxiety & How to Deal With It | Heather White

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Darin Olien

Self-improvement, Education, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The human race has done massive damage to the environment.

Thinking about the climate crisis and all the environmental dangers that exist today can be completely overwhelming. Today’s youth has a collective case of eco-anxiety. How can we calm their nerves and give them hope for the future? Heather White, founder of One Green Thing, explains how we can all use our collective eco-anxiety to spark effective environmental change.

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0:00.0	Everybody, this is Darren O'Lean. This is the Darren O'Lean show. Stoke to have you here.
0:10.2	I have an amazing guest, her name is Heather White. She's the founder of One Green Thing.
0:16.8	That's right. She has One Green Thing discover your hidden power to help save the planet.
0:24.1	It's really helping us on the planet because the planet's going to brush us off really quick.
0:30.0	I was so eager to have this conversation because she comes from the political spectrum,
0:36.8	environmental policy perspective. She's an expert in this space over 20 years of experience,
0:45.9	leading and advising nonprofits, increasing organizational performance, and directing
0:54.0	innovation and advocacy for campaigns, especially around the earth and the planet and all of these
1:01.3	crazy things that we're doing. It's almost like if we were trying to hurt ourselves and this
1:09.2	precious planet and the beautiful insects and creatures and animals, it'd be what we're doing.
1:15.2	You look around. Everything's polluting. We have plastic on everything. We have chemicals in our
1:21.9	water in our food. We're growing things, stripping it. Our earth is crumbling and crying.
1:29.1	We have overconsumption of subsidized meat and fish and dairy and chemicalized everything.
1:36.3	It's crazy. One thing that happened down to earth season one, as they got a flood of young
1:44.8	vibrant kids that didn't know much about this. We weren't hitting the drum of environmentalism,
1:49.8	but they were touched and inspired by the show down to earth. Then we want to do something
1:57.4	to help. That's why I was so excited about this conversation with Heather. We talked a bit about
2:02.1	that because her one green thing book and her movement forward was inspired and initiated in
2:12.6	this next level by her daughter, her younger daughter, T.A.'s daughter was asking invoking questions
2:19.6	of how to get involved. She's an incredible book that actually helps you discover more of yourself
2:28.2	and see where your strengths are to then apply them to your life. In this case, how can you help
2:37.3	create more common sense in this world so that not hurting ourselves and hurting this precious
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