Contents
Acknowledgments
Who am I and Why am I giving you this advice?
PART 1: The context of climate anxiety.
Chapter 1: Introduction: What is climate anxiety?.
Chapter 2: Shouldn’t we all have climate anxiety?
Chapter 3: Do helplines actually help us when it comes to climate anxiety?
Chapter 4: Is climate anxiety made worse by other global crises?
PART 2: Climate anxiety and the brain
Chapter 5: Why can’t people make up their mind about climate change?
Chapter 6: Why don’t we do more?
Chapter 7: Can models of anxiety help us understand climate anxiety?
PART 3: Contesting climate anxiety/contesting climate change
Chapter 8: Why do people claim climate change is fake news?
Chapter 9: How can people stay happy with climate change?
Chapter 10: Is there a stigma surrounding climate anxiety?
PART 4: Thinking of the future
Chapter 11: New horizons?
Glossary
References:
Biography
Geoff Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK. He is a prize-winning psychologist, author and broadcaster with a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society for ‘published psychological research of outstanding merit'. He has published over one hundred academic articles in a range of journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change, Environment and Behavior, and Semiotica. Beattie has acted as a consultant to various international organisations with a focus on sustainability, including Unilever, the Leadership Vanguard (established by the CEO of Unilever), and the Born Free Foundation. He is also a member of the International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC) which aims to collect and integrate knowledge and evidence on environmentally-related behaviour change.
"One of the most substantive books of our time on climate change and its psychological effects on humankind. A must-read on a global scale that offers both insight and validation on climate anxiety's place in the quest for mental health."
Vanessa Botelho, Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism, City University of New York, and two-time Emmy Award winner for news coverage.
"Geoffrey Beattie is a household name in various areas, from fiction to psychology and environmental science. His books, fictional and scientific, are hard to put down when one starts reading them. They are insightful and delectable at once. This book is another triumph and may well be one of his best. This is more than a brilliant book—scary and enlightening at the same time. I could not put it down, reading it twice in a row. This is required reading for everyone—it truly is."
Professor Marcel Danesi, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.
"Understanding Climate Anxiety is an insightful, thought-provoking and disturbing book. This book outlines the psychological science behind climate anxiety in an accessible and committed way and critically considers climate anxiety in context. This issue affects us all. A must read; ignorance cannot be an option."
Professor David Gibson OBE, entrepreneur. Author of the ‘E-Factor:The 21st Century Guide to Entrepreneurial Thinking’ (Wiley).
