Talking Climate · The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy

24: Climate Anxiety Prevalence at the U

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Aldo Leopold's 1953 quote captures the lonely burden of seeing a world wounded by environmental change.
This episode explores a University of Utah study on eco-anxiety among undergraduate students, finding higher levels in environmental studies majors and female students. The guests discuss coping strategies, the impact of education and social media, and initiatives like the Good Grief Network to address climate grief.

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A University of Utah study gives a clear, campus-level look at climate anxiety and how students are dealing with it.

This episode follows climate grief and eco-anxiety through a University of Utah study of undergraduate students. Ross Chambliss frames the conversation, while Jennifer Olmsted Shaw and Andrea Brunel walk through how the research was done and what it found.

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Hear how climate anxiety looks in a student study, not headlines.

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