Here's how to turn climate change anxiety into action

Survey data has shown that more than half of young adults have felt anxious, angry, powerless or helpless about human-driven climate change.” If our young people can’t have hope and engage in climate action, then we're going to have that much harder of a time bending the curve back,” says Elissa Epel, a renowned stress researcher at UC San Francisco. So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called Climate Resilience, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant.