Harris campaign poaches aide from climate group tied to anti-gas stoves push
Harris campaign poaches aide from climate group tied to anti-gas stoves push By Gabe Kaminsky A former staffer for a climate group behind efforts to ban gas stoves has landed a new role as “climate engagement director” for Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign. The Harris campaign has brought on Camila Thorndike, a self-styled “climate hype girl for […]
Study Shows Major Price Drops On Used Electric Vehicles – Now selling for 11.4% less than gas-powered autos – A year ago, EVs were going for 12.1% more than gas cars
Pre-owned EVs are now selling for 11.4% less than internal combustion models. A year ago, they were going for 12.1% more than conventional cars, trucks and SUVs. That’s according to a study of pricing trends based on over 1.6 million 1-5-year-old used EV transactions in August 2023 and 2024 by the online marketplace iSeeCars.com.
LA Times: ‘To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism’ – Feels ‘like we’re just counting down the days to our own extinction’
Rosanna Xia – La Times How do you cope? I feel the sorrow, the quiet plea for guidance every time someone asks me this question. As an environmental reporter dedicated to helping people make sense of climate change, I know I should have answers. But the truth is, it took me until now to face my own grief. …With each new heat record shattered, and each new report declaring a code red for humanity, I can’t help but feel like we’re just counting down the days to our own extinction. …
How can they feel hopeful about the future, they asked, when, on top of everything already stacked against them, they also have to worry about wildfires, extreme heat and air pollution getting out of control?
‘Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question’ asks: With American society feeling more socially and politically polarized than ever, is it right to bring another person into the world?
When talking about climate anxiety, it’s important to differentiate whether you’re assessing these emotions as a mental health condition, or as a cultural phenomenon. Let’s start with mental health: Polls show climate anxiety is on the rise and that people all around the world are losing sleep over climate change. Organizations like the Climate-Aware Therapist Directory and the American Psychiatric Assn. have put together an increasing number of guides and resources to help more people understand how climate change has affected our emotional well-being.
But you can’t treat climate anxiety like other forms of anxiety, and here’s where the cultural politics come in: The only way to make climate anxiety go away is to make climate change go away, and given the fraught and deeply systemic underpinnings of climate change, we must also consider this context when it comes to our climate emotions.
“Climate anxiety can’t be limited to just a clinical setting — we have to take it out of the therapy room and look at it through a lens of privilege, and power, and the economic, historical and social structures that are at the root of the problem,” said Sarah Jaquette Ray, whose book “A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety” is a call to arms to think more expansively about our despair. “Treating a person’s climate anxiety without challenging these systems only addresses the symptoms, not the causes… and if white or more privileged emotions get the most airtime, and if we don’t see how climate is intersecting with all these other problems, that can result in a greater silencing of the people most impacted.”
The trick to fixing climate anxiety is to fix individualism, she said. Start small, tap into what you’re already good at, join something bigger than yourself. … And by fixing individualism, as many young activists like Patel have already figured out, we just might have a better shot at fixing climate change.