Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

By J. Macy, C. Johnstone. 2012

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Climate change and mental health: risks, impacts and priority actions (2018, background): “Active hope is required to move hopeful intentions from a passive state where waiting for someone else to take-on the task of addressing the climate change problem is replaced with an active process of climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviours [106].”
An Exploration of the Relationships between Adults' Childhood and Current Nature Exposure and Their Mental Well-Being (2023, background): “Based on the reasoning that nature exposure increases connectedness to nature, such connectedness enables nature to be considered as part of an expanded sense of self (e.g., Macy & Johnstone, 2012; Naess, 1988; Schultz, 2002) and, therefore, causing harm to nature parallels causing harm to the self.”
Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “In fact, ecological grief is discussed by most of the authors who have written about coping with eco-anxiety [57,66,96,98,126–128].”