Overcoming Climate Anxiety Through Collaboration With Laird Christensen

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Personal Journals, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As the climate crisis continues to worsen, it seems our personal efforts to mitigate its adverse effects are all for naught. This causes everyone to feel climate anxiety, with so many pushed to not even care at all. Laird Christensen, PhD is here to emphasize the utmost need for collective action to create massive waves of change at a national and global scale. He explains how to focus more on collaborative work among local communities and environmental activists and less on antagonistic conversations that only sow anger and dissent. Laird also stresses the importance of patience and the genuine desire to listen when it comes to amplifying personal impact dedicated to sustainability and regeneration.

About Guest:

Laird Christensen is a visionary leader dedicated to addressing the global climate crisis through local sustainability efforts and intentional community building, driven by a profound commitment to ecological citizenship. As the founding Director of online Graduate Programs in Environmental Studies (2006) and Resilient and Sustainable Communities (2015), he revolutionized distance education by emphasizing practical application within students' communities.

Laird’s expertise spans public speaking, facilitating groups, hosting impactful online events, and many forms of writing, from creative nonfiction to scholarly works and poetry. His interdisciplinary background spotlights humanity's relationship with the environment, emphasizing narratives' role in shaping resilient and just communities. Laird Christensen's diverse skill set and commitment to sustainability mark him as an inspirational figure driving change in education and advocacy.

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https://prescott.edu/area-of-study/resilient-sustainable-communities-ms

https://www.facebook.com/MRSCatPrescott

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Transcript

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0:00.0	sustainability, building resilient, sustainable communities overlaps with many other issues,
0:05.3	including social justice and community organization. We can't really have a sustainable
0:10.4	community where a sizable proportion of that community feels unheard, feels disempowered,
0:17.7	feels left out of the process. So we really need to find ways to support our friends
0:24.8	who are doing other essential work as we continue to do our own. That's community building
0:31.3	at the small scale level, a few friends, a neighborhood meeting, whatever it may be.
0:36.9	I really do believe in the power
0:38.8	of local communities to affect change more broadly, but also to keep us inspired and empowered
0:45.1	as we move on. Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the
0:52.4	social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes.
0:56.5	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.
1:01.8	You'll learn how you can make a difference. Vote with your dollars and get involved today.
1:06.7	Here's your host, Karina Belizei.
1:11.4	Hello and welcome to another interview episode of Care More Be Better.
1:15.5	Now, while climate change can really feel overwhelming for all of us,
1:19.0	especially in the case of watching climate news in particular,
1:23.2	there are always ways to address the challenges that we face at the local level as well as
1:28.8	at the national scale and even global level to make meaningful and powerful change.
1:35.1	This is because as a network of climate activists, our power can be amplified.
1:41.7	We can do so through collaboration, through the use of means online,
1:46.4	through a podcast, and through social media. So as we develop these networks on a local and a global
1:53.6	scale, our impact can truly be something special. So you guessed it, we're knuckling down today
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