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Parenting in a Changing Climate: Tools for cultivating resilience, taking action, and practicing hope in the face of climate change
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About Parenting In A Changing Climate: Tools For
Product Description What’s it like to wake up to the reality of climate change—while also trying to raise small children? As parents, how do we act on our values when we’re already exhausted from the day-to-day challenges of parenting? After an unconventional journey to motherhood that led to the birth of her twins in 2016, Elizabeth Bechard found herself struggling with an unshakeable sense of anxiety and grief about climate change during the most care-intensive season of parenthood. As a coach, she had also noticed a troubling trend of rising climate dread in her clients, all of whom were struggling with various forms of infertility and pregnancy loss. Parenting in a Changing Climate blends intimate memoir with Bechard’s experience as a coach and researcher, drawing on science from the study of climate psychology, science communication, health disparities, resilience, and behavior change. This book offers practical tools, resources, and inspiration for parents who are worried about the planet future generations will inherit and who want to find ways to cultivate resilience and take action on behalf of the children they love. Readers struggling to find their place in the climate movement will take away a clearer answer to the question our children will undoubtedly someday ask: what did you do once you knew the truth about climate change? Review "Bechard traverses the experience of parenting in the age of climate breakdown with insight, compassion, and uncompromising honesty. This beautifully-written book invites readers to come to terms with the grief and travails that accompany bringing new life into an increasingly damaged world. It's a book that our time badly needs; and if you are a parent whose eyes are open, it's a book that YOU need."--Professor Rupert Read, author of Parents for a Future: How loving our children can prevent climate collapse"At a time when many people are questioning whether or not to have kids at all because of the severity of the climate crisis, Parenting in a Changing Climate does something profound. It calls for parents' moral clarity, emotional intelligence and resilience, showing that these are indeed possible to practice when facing the crisis, and supports the climate-concerned who haven't turned away from having kids despite the existential threat humanity now faces. Increasing numbers of people will be needing this book as ecological losses and a warming world bear down on their family relationships, and through it, they'll find strength."--Dr. Britt Wray, author of Gen Dread, Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and LSHTM"If our real job as humans is to engage more emotionally with the climate crisis then Elizabeth's book is an invaluable tool in that process... Elizabeth seemingly effortlessly combines well-researched data with personal experience and her years of working with families. This book articulated what I felt as a parent working on the climate crisis, but hadn't ever put into words. You will find a newfound sense of your ability to make a difference and your relevance to the crisis. Beautiful, tender and truly eloquent, Elizabeth's writing is at once gentle, funny, bluntly honest and heart-rending. She deftly handles two very emotive subjects in this, unbelievably, her first book. I very much hope that she writes more."--Charly Cox, coach and Founder of Climate Change Coaches"Bearing witness to a set of interlocking issues, including eco-anxiety and climate grief, Elizabeth Bechard has penned an extraordinarily sensitive, evocative, and beautifully moving portrait of parenthood in this time of severe climate disruption. Her book is heartbreaking, yet ultimately healing and validating to read. It is also one of the most immediately useful books I have read in years, including an invitation to simply feel what we are feeling, and to build our resilience, as first steps in moving towards meaningful and open conversations, and from there to engage in effe
