Three Practices to Combat Climate Grief
By Michael Kearney, Joanna Macy, Radhule Weininger, BJ Miller, and Balfour Mount
Tricycle
April 20, 2023
Palliative care providers offer a middle path between despair and denial when considering the climate crisis.
We are planet people in an existential crisis because of human-generated climate change. This is causing untold suffering. However, even though most climate scientists agree on this diagnosis, the general public may or may not. A great portion of the population seems to be either in denial or so-called “climate nonchalance,” where we may have knowledge about the dangers of climate change yet shrug our shoulders and are unwilling or unable to engage.