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.

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?

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