S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing?
07/02/23 • 50 min
Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis?
Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger.
Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs [email protected].
References:
- Its Not Just You, Tori Tsui
- Climate Anxiety: An Illness of the System, Ayisha Siddiqa
- No Good Alone, Rayne Fisher Quann
- Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, Caroline Hickman et al.
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Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis?
Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger.
Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs [email protected].
References:
- Its Not Just You, Tori Tsui
- Climate Anxiety: An Illness of the System, Ayisha Siddiqa
- No Good Alone, Rayne Fisher Quann
- Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, Caroline Hickman et al.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite
Join our hosts Larissa and Zoe as they introduce themselves and what to expect from podcast ahead of the first episode launch on 3rd July.
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S1 Ep2: Why is health only a human right if you're white?
This is a really heavy episode, but I swear we find a place of hope at the end.
Coming out of the pandemic, we saw how ethnic minority groups across the western world were being impacted at much higher rates and levels of severity than white people. Larissa and Zoe wanted to look at why this happened, how did we get here and how do we build a health system which works for everyone, not just middle-class white people. The gals cover the history of medical racism (spoiler: weaponisation of the bible) and the people on the ground building something better (spoiler: they're incred).
Trigger warning: racist violence, medical violence, enslavement.
References:
- Kavian Kulasabanathan and Sali Mudawi (2023) The NHS as a site of structural violence, Divided: In conversation with Annabel Sowemimo
- Reproductive Justice Initiative, Manna Mostaghim and Luci Pina (2023) What is ReproductiveJustice?
- Brett. Milano (2021)With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
- Udodiri R. Okwandu (2019) A Study in Medical and Scientific Racism In America
- The Cape Town Call to Action
- People’s Health Hearing
Action - endorse the charter: The People’s Charter for Health - https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health
Action - follow: Health for a Green New Deal - https://twitter.com/Health4GND
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