How To!: Generation Dread: Finding Purpose In an Age of Climate Crisis.

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As the massive Caldor fire blazed towards South Lake Tahoe in 2021, Joyce knew she had to get out. “The sky was red. It was like hell on earth,” she remembers. Her family got to safety and her house was miraculously spared. But, even now, it can be jarring to remember the fire. Climate-related extreme weather events are on the rise and another disaster is seemingly right around the corner. Especially with freakish flash floods, a scorching heatwave and wildfire smoke blanketing much of the country. On this episode of How To!, guest-host Cheyna Roth brings on Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose In an Age of Climate Crisis. Dr. Wray explains why we need to treat climate anxiety differently and how we can create resilience both internally and within our communities as we face climate change, together. Resources Mentioned: Climate Psychology Alliance Climate Psychiatry Alliance Good Grief Network Climate Awakening Gen Dread Substack If you liked this episode, check out: How To Save the Planet (And Still Use a Plastic Straw) Do you have a question we can help you solve? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. Podcast production by Derek John, Rosemary Belson, Kevin Bendis, and Jabari Butler. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have a friend of mine who lived in Markleville, it's here in the Sierras, and basically the fireman knocked on his door and said, you've got 10 minutes to get out.
0:10.5	And he got out with his guitar and I don't know, the clothes on his back.
0:14.6	And that night, he's watching television.
0:18.1	He sees his house burn up on television.
0:23.2	Welcome to how to.
0:24.4	I'm Slate Senior producer, Shana Roth, filling in for Carvel Wallace.
0:29.9	About two years ago, a wildfire broke out in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
0:35.4	It quickly turned into a massive burn, blazing through the community
0:39.9	of Grizzly Flats and heading for South Lake Tahoe, home of this week's listener, Joyce.
0:45.5	At night, like the sky was red, it's like hell on earth. I mean, I don't know. Another way
0:51.7	to put it. We have fire burning on both sides of Highway 50.
0:55.5	Look, you're seeing those flames come up behind those cars. We are in a position right now where we're
1:00.3	going to have to think about getting out of here in just a few minutes. So I'm glad you guys came out to us.
1:04.1	But I wanted you to see this. Fire has entered the Lake Tahoe Basin. It has crossed to the downhill side of Highway 50, and you're seeing
1:12.9	the smoke really flying over our heads.
1:17.4	It burned thousands of acres and totally burning out of control. We were experiencing wildfire
1:25.3	smoke for not days, but weeks on end.
1:29.2	I know of people who were like seeing flames down their streets and things like that.
1:34.1	And as it got closer, stuff's falling from the sky.
1:38.3	I just couldn't stand it.
1:40.3	And watching the evacuation map, where is the fire now, constantly looking at that, wondering
1:47.2	should we get out, and they had not issued the mandatory evacuation. Well, we didn't wait.
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