Honesty, with Rupert Read
Your Brain On Climate
00:00
The Importance of Honesty in Coping With Anxiety
I think we're at the beginning of a huge wave here, I think that what we saw with Fridays for future for example and the many millions of young people who demonstrated there across the world absolutely inspiringly. And yeah look we're all going to have our coping mechanisms but what I'm about is us processing this together and finding en-ramps into doing stuff about it which is enormously therapeutic. This is one of the secrets of success of movements like Extinction Rebellion that a lot of people who participated found that the actual act of participation itself significantly improved their mental health or ability to cloak the situation. It's not as grim as it's sometimes painted as being on Twitter or especially TikTok
Transcript
Play full episode
