Just an FYI before we get started, we're going to be talking about feelings today, specifically climate-related feelings.

So if you're having a day when you're not quite ready for that, you might want to come back to this episode at another time.

The moment you allow the enormity of climate crisis and the larger ecological crisis,

what's happening to our oceans, soils, coral reefs, you're just naturally are bound to feel enormous grief.

On this show, we talk a lot about what we can do to address climate change.

But today, we want to talk about what climate change is doing to us, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.

The toll that climate change takes on our personal lives, on our emotions, it's growing.

It's layering on top of all the other burdens that we have in our lives, in our emotions, it's growing. It's layering on top of all the other burdens that we

have in our lives, in our communities, and society. In the mini-series that opened our season,

we asked, what can we do? Today, we're asking a different but equally vital question. How can we

cope? This is a matter of degrees, stories for the climate curious.

I'm Dr. Leah Stokes.

And I'm Dr. Catherine Wilkinson.

Today, we're sharing three stories of people who got swallowed up by difficult climate emotions

and found a way through them.

The psychological impacts of the climate crisis aren't new, but as a society, we're just

beginning to create language to name and describe them.

The term ecological grief was first used by Aldo Leopold to describe the distress we feel

when our lands become increasingly unrecognizable.

And Glenn Albrecht invented the word Tara Fury, literally earth rage, to express the deep anger

and resulting helplessness that we feel about ecological destruction. There's never going to be a

single word or phrase that captures the avalanche of emotions we feel as the climate crisis worsens.

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