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If our home, planet earth, is in peril (and it is!), then so are we. As we experience more frequent and ferocious natural disasters, the irreversible loss of life-sustaining habitats, and a climate we’ve turned into an adversary of our very existence, an existential crisis is brewing. Along with concern for our physical security, our mental well-being is being battered in these storms…figuratively, but also quite literally.
Among the most affected and concerned are young people who are contemplating their future in a profoundly precarious world. Understanding, documenting, and measuring the emotional cost of their fears and anxiety is the work of Dr. Britt Wray, an instructor in Stanford’s Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Director of CIRCLE - Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership, and Emoti ...