Facing the loss: why climate anxiety is actually grief

How do we learn to live in a world marked by ecological loss? In her recent paper, "Mourning as relearning: ethical education amid ecological loss," Jessica Lussier argues that we are experiencing "disenfranchised grief"—losses, like species extinction or disappearing landscapes, that are rarely publicly acknowledged.

Lussier proposes that mourning is not just a feeling, but a process of "relearning our world". By moving from "spectating" to witnessing, she suggests that education can foster a "pedagogy of discomfort" that helps us stay present to loss rather than turning away.

This NotebookLM generated podcast presents a deep dive into the paper. Listen below to explore how naming our grief can help us "stay with the trouble" and ground our ethical responsibility to the more-than-human world.

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