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Die Situation, in der wir uns befinden, ist undenkbar

Das Ausmaß der Traumata und des toxischen Stresses, die die Klimakrise verursacht, ist unvorstellbar. Wir haben uns seit Jahrzehnten mit den besten Ideen zur Lösung dieser Krise beschäftigt, und dennoch steigen die Emissionen weiter an, Katastrophen häufen sich und immer mehr Menschen werden zu Klimaflüchtlingen.

Wir brauchen Ansätze, die über das enge technokratische und wissenschaftliche Denken hinausgehen und sich mit den gefühlsmäßigen, verhaltensbezogenen, psychologischen, somatischen, imaginativen und generativen Möglichkeiten auseinandersetzen, Herzen und Köpfe zu bewegen.

Wir entwickeln integrative, gemeinschaftsorientierte Ansätze, um auf die Zerstörung lebender Systeme mit angemessener emotionaler Reife, Verantwortung, Liebe und Fürsorge zu reagieren.

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Ever wondered how climate scientists cope emotionally with the weight of what they know? We get this question all the time from activists, psychologists, readers… and honestly, we’ve wondered it too.

Enter director Nathan Grossman (the mind behind the film I Am Greta). After years of witnessing the emotional world of youth activists up close, he turned his lens toward climate scientists asking not what they think, but what they feel. Many told him they’d never been asked that question so directly.

From those surprising conversations came Climate in Therapy, a powerful new documentary following a group of climate scientists as they step into group therapy for the first time. The film has been touring festivals worldwide, snagged an award at HotDocs, and now Unthinkable is the first to offer it online!

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Join Britt + Nathan Grossman for a live Substack chat about the film, climate emotions, and what he’s seen behind the scenes (including an extremely heated screening at the Potsdam Institute) on Thurs, Nov 20th, 2pm EST / 8pm CET.

Watch the film on Kinema from Nov 13 at 7pm CET through Nov 21 at 7pm CET for just $3.99, and hit the link in bio to grab your ticket, start streaming, or learn more!

Today, I stand united with women worldwide as we call for bold climate action. Women are leading the way and are building solutions to protect what we love. The energy transition is unstoppable, despite those trying to halt it. #WomenLeadingOnClimate #COP30.

Climate disasters are no longer rare. They are relentless and intensifying. Every week we see wildfires consuming whole regions and neighborhoods, floods like the recent nightmare scenario in Kerr County Texas, and heatwaves straining power grids and hospitals. Now, they’re starting to compound. Sometimes, unlucky communities haven’t even had a chance to recover from the last disaster before they’re hit with another. What happens when the news cycle moves on but the trauma lingers?

My brilliant friend and colleague Dr. Adrienne Heinz, a clinical psychologist who is part of our research team at CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, lived through this firsthand. What started as her daughter’s first birthday party ended in a devastating wildfire evacuation, and subsequently, a radical transformation of both her personal life and her professional purpose.

In this moving essay, Adrienne shares her story of fear, trauma, the community resilience that came next, and the care we owe each other. Healing from climate trauma is a long game. Adrienne wisely shows us why mental health support needs to be embedded into every layer of disaster response and she’s helping show the world how with her trailblazing work, emboldened by lived experience and “tragic optimism”.

Please read and share widely (link in bio)!

I find myself receiving the same questions over and over again, just formatted in different words, from the many people who write in to our Dear Climate Therapist column looking for advice. It’s a clear signal that so many people are quietly battling the same struggles, especially around how to keep showing up when day to day existence is like swimming through a full frontal moral injury attack from the powers that be, alongside concerns about how to navigate relationships with people who minimize or deny the planetary health crisis we are in.

These aren’t abstract questions. They’re here and now heart-questions. And the way we respond to them has real consequences for our relationships, our resilience, and our capacity to keep caring and making change through this moment and beyond.

Our latest column deals with these questions. But first, I’m excited to announce that we’ve just started a new collaboration with Atmos, a brilliant climate + culture platform, to bring you the Dear Climate Therapist column. This week, Caroline Hickman guides us through two readers’ questions that our growing pool of letters from readers demonstrate are critical concerns for many.

I invite you to sit with her words and wisdom (link in bio)

This week I’m sharing a searing guest essay by longtime oceans campaigner Nicolas Entrup, which is pinned to the upcoming UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) happening this month. With over three decades in the trenches of marine conservation, Nicolas brings a gritty and experienced perspective on the frustrating reality that the very institutions meant to protect life under water are being hijacked by petro-power.

Nick is helping to lead a global call to action: the #BecauseOurPlanetIsBlue campaign, which is gathering signatures from citizens around the world to demand a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration.

Please read the piece, add your name, and share it widely. Link in bio!

For many of us, it feels like we’re no longer just fighting climate change. We’re fighting climate erasure. Protections are being stripped. Science is under siege. The world we were building - all of the decades worth of research and momentum - is being stalled if not outright decimated. But what if the wisest thing we can do now is refuse to be flattened by these forces by finding new ways to roll with the undulating up and down nature of this ongoing - and long term - struggle?

In this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column, Leslie Davenport responds to a young public health student in Canada who’s wondering how to stay in the work without falling apart. Her question is so real and prescient: how do you balance acceptance with passion when everything feels so high-stakes?

Leslie’s response is a balm. She reminds us that burnout doesn’t come from caring too much, it comes from caring without support, without nourishment, without space to breathe. It means learning to move in seasons, remembering that passion without pacing and responding to what’s present is a fast track to collapse.

If you’re someone who can’t imagine doing anything else with your life, but are bone-tired and unsure how to keep going, this one’s for you. Link in bio!

If what you’re feeling around the blatant blockages to climate action isn’t grief or fear but perhaps white-hot rage, this is for you.

This week our resident climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responds to a reader who’s frankly, pissed. She writes about rage not as something to suppress or “manage” but as a vital emotional force that is important to have planted in one’s own garden of emotions. Like biodiversity in nature, we need a full spectrum of emotional responses to survive and thrive amid the constant assaults to life on this planet. Caroline wisely demonstrates how to stop judging one’s own emotions and to start listening to them instead, transforming anger into expression, and strengthening connection to what one loves without pretending everything is fine. It’s an invitation to feel fully human at an inhumane time. Link in bio!

To keep the celebrations for Earth Day going, I thought I’d share an enlivening conversation I had with Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, author of a book by the same name, and bonafide online sustainability and climate justice powerhouse (@greengirlleah). I got to meet Leah for an event we did together a couple months ago at The Great Northern Festival, a winter wonderland in Minnesota that uses art, dialogue, and outdoor experiences to deepen the culture of climate care.

Read on for our chat about how climate distress intersects with systemic injustices, channeling rage, and how to cultivate a form of hope that isn’t naive, but active, strategic, and real. We also get personal, sharing what keeps us going, what helps us navigate the heaviness, and how time spent in nature is a total lifeline in this work.

I hope this convo brings you into the room with us. Link in bio!

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist column covers an urgent and timely topic. A parent writes in alarmed by the rise in online radicalization of young men, and wonders how polyscrisis distress might be intersecting with their son’s growing vulnerability to misogynistic and authoritarian ideologies.

It’s a powerful, necessary question: what happens to a generation of boys and young men when they don’t see a future they want to live in? And how do we as parents, caregivers, educators, clinicians, neighbors respond before the algorithms get to them first?

Our resident climate-aware therapist Kyle Hill reflects on the psychological concept of the extinction burst—the backlash that erupts when a harmful system is finally being challenged. He offers thoughts on our collective responsibility to guide young people toward solidarity, connection, and care, instead of letting despair be weaponized.

This is an important one. Read it an the link in bio!

How do you approach and tend to your love for someone whose beliefs are actively harming the future you’re fighting for?

Oof. Such a timely dilemma in this polarized mess of a society.

That’s the heart of this week’s Dear Climate Therapist letter wherein a reader is gutted by the fact that their conservative family brushes off the climate crisis as “exaggerated”. They’re torn between staying connected and cutting ties. And they’re asking: how do I live with this? Our resident climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport’s response is beautifully grounding. She doesn’t sugarcoat the pain, but offers real strategies for navigating these emotional landmines.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of climate division in your family or relationships, I hope you’ll feel seen. Link in bio!

There’s a breaking apart happening—not just in political fractures, but in something harder to name: the slow erosion of trust, the disorientation of not knowing which way is up, what’s real, or where we go from here.

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist takes on questions that so many of us are asking right now: Is my climate distress too much? Or is it the world that’s gone off axis, leaving us stranded without a map? Caroline Hickman, this week’s therapist, reminds us: Feeling deeply isn’t maladaptive. It’s a sign of being awake. It’s about seeing clearly and refusing to let panic distort what’s true so we can find ways to stay steady in the shifting.

Read this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column at the link in bio and, as always, let us know what’s moving through you.

Fascists and oppressors thrive on chaos, flooding our attention with crisis after crisis, hoping to distract us, as they destabilize the structures we once thought were solid. Their goal is mass disorientation, where all that's left for the average individual is the ability to dissociate from reality in order to stay sane, which prevents the people from organizing. Well, we're not falling for this tactic that is designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and erode our ability to resist. This week, I’m excited to share a powerful guest essay from the inimitable Andrew Boyd, aka @the.tragic.optimist, on the art of discerning attention which he calls "selective denial". It's a treatise on how to stay engaged and focused on what you care about changing most, without being totally consumed by the pervasive muck that clogs our ability to feel well. Read on at the link in bio for his insights and darkly funny wisdom.

This week, a grandmother’s letter cuts straight to the heart of a deep and often unspoken struggle—how to face the climate crisis with young people in an honest way that takes accountability and shows compassion for the difficult position this puts the next generation in, without being drowned by guilt or despair?

Her words reflect a tension many older generations are grappling with. As Leslie Davenport, our resident climate-aware therapist, reminds us: this mix of guilt and grief can be reframed as a starting point for connection and meaningful action — the most powerful acts of love we can offer. Head to the link in bio to read more!

Have you noticed an intensification of nostalgic aesthetics and what’s been called “nostalgiacore” as a possible coping response to the polycrisis, particularly amongst young people?

Thanks to Atmos and journalist Daphne Milner for drawing these connections.

As I shared in this article: “I don’t want to write it off as being only some kind of retreat from reality or escapism because there’s certainly a place and a time for this kind of comfort-seeking,” Wray says. “It’s just that we cannot hang out under the covers forever. We need to find ways of breeding up more hardcore existential resilience so that we can actually engage in transformative actions with others to build a better world rather than just hide away from the scary system in which we’re living.”

Read full article over at @atmos 🪐

This week in Gen Dread, a reader shares a deeply conflicted feeling: the horror of knowing the devastation and suffering to come in the days leading up to Hurricane Milton, mixed with a hope that if the wreckage were intense enough, maybe this disaster would finally wake people up to the climate crisis.

It’s an uncomfortable tension—one many of us carry but rarely name out loud. Our climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responded with compassion and insight, inviting us to see this as a reflection of external, systemic failures rather than something shameful. She spoke of the need for “a dream and a nightmare” in order to hold the weight of anguish while still daring to imagine a better way forward. Head over to reach the full exchange on Gen Dread at the link in bio!

After last week’s U.S. election, the reality of what’s ahead is setting in, with climate-denying leaders threatening critical protections for our environment and the rights of LGBTQ+, women, migrants’ and more marginalized groups. In a world fixated on speed and desensitization, it’s critical to carve out spaces to genuinely feel the depth of what’s unfolding before us. We invite you to share how you’re processing, what’s helping you feel supported, and how you’re navigating differing views around you. Head over to Gen Dread (link in bio), read how others are doing, and leave a comment if you feel compelled.

Election emotions are intense right now, and we honour yours. This week on Gen Dread we start with that and then hand the reins to Matthew Green, global investigations editor at DeSmog and co-host of the Pocket Project’s Climate Consciousness Summit that’s happening November 15-21. Matthew interviewed Lindsey Gulden, a former ExxonMobil employee about her courageous journey from industry insider to whistleblower. Initially, Lindsey believed she could contribute positively to climate solutions from within the company. However, a growing awareness of Exxon’s deceptive practices, like promoting false solutions and waging a billion-dollar disinformation campaign, revealed a far graver reality. Armed with her insider knowledge, Lindsey now feels compelled by a moral duty to expose the industry’s betrayal and abuse of the public social good, and calls for collective resistance to fossil fuel industry disinformation. Link in bio.

This week in our Dear Climate Therapist column, an instructor asks for advice on supporting students grappling with the emotional toll of climate science studies. Our resident therapist, Kyle Hill, shared powerful wisdom: instead of relying on superficial self-care, we must embrace mutual care. Grief, anxiety, and fear should be acknowledged in community—not faced alone. Drawing from Indigenous teachings, Kyle reminds us that we’re all part of a vast web of kinship, connecting us to each other and the earth. Healing happens together. Link in bio.

✨New guest post on Gen Dread today!✨ Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor at UC Riverside, explores a big, complicated question that so many are asking; one that we’ve covered through a variety of angles before: how are people thinking about having kids in the climate crisis?

In her powerful new book, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question, Jade delves into the intersection of climate change, race, and reproductive justice. She challenges us to rethink how we build our families—focusing on equity, collective action, and the importance of addressing vulnerability in marginalized communities.

“Climate change heightened people’s feelings of social vulnerability,” she says, “exacerbating mental health challenges, and making people rethink their plans to have children.” Read Jade’s piece at the link in bio.

Last handful of days have reignited in me why I am so obsessed with doing this heart centered climate work. Got to film with @bigpictureranch for their ambitious documentary about regeneration in the climate crisis, speak amongst redwoods with the delightful and inspiring @spencer.r.scott and @nschwanz from @solarpunkfarms , scheme about climate distress offerings with the talented @raeoquirrhdial , lead a training in climate distress skills for mental health clinicians at @stanford , interview rhetoric expert Genevieve Guenther about her stunning new book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS @cwclub and have dinner with the mighty @justinjpearson amongst other incredible climate leaders and I’m just….in awe. There are so many good people out there charging a brighter way through this struggle we are all in as the atmospheric physics around us change in ways we’d much rather them not, and I am recharged and grateful.

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