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What does it mean to manage our eco-anxiety?

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As the weather warms up, CBC Edmonton’s podcast explores how we cope with difficult feelings around climate change

As the weather warms up, CBC Edmonton’s podcast explores climate-based grief

A large crowd stands with signs with climate-change related slogans. One says It's getting hot in here, another says there is no planet B.
Climate change activists marched alongside oil and gas industry supporters in 2019 at a rally with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press)

Climate grief and eco-anxiety are not mainstream ideas, but the term is gaining ground among researchers. But what does it actually mean to cope with our feelings around climate change?

22:59Managing our eco-anxiety

Alberta had several record-setting weather events in 2023, we’re coming out of a weird winter and spring is just days away. On the latest This Is Edmonton podcast, host Clare Bonnyman is joined by CBC climate reporter Stephanie Cram to take a closer look at our weather patterns and data.

Plus, the podcast enjoys the great outdoors with Stephanie Olsen, a University of Alberta master’s student who is using a public health perspective to study ways community can come together to overcome climate-based anxiety. 

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This Is Edmonton is posted online every Wednesday. Listen here or get in touch at thisisyeg@cbc.ca.

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