How can we effectively combat climate change while grappling with feelings of powerlessness and despair? This is one of the key questions author Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University, seeks to answer in her new book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety.
by Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming PlanetIt’s been a week of total chaos. As the chair of the environmental studies department at Humboldt State, I’ve been stressed about assuaging students’ worries about disrupted classes, whet
How can we expect young people to face what has been called the greatest existential threat if their go-to solution is to erase themselves? How can we help them desire instead of dread their futures?
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, running from November 3-9, focusing on an overall theme of how we and our peer presses "Read. Think. Act." From the AU Presses: "Read. Think. Act." is a particularly apt theme as many citizens