Eco-anxiety to Climate Optimism | Lyn Stoler | TEDxManhattanBeach

In her poignant talk turned hopeful, Liz Stoler shares how climate change is already impacting public health and a phenomenon in mental health called solastalgia, the distress that is produced by environmental change. She shares several community-based ideas to move us from climate pessimism to climate optimism. Lyn Stoler is a public health and climate researcher committed to nurturing and sustaining hope as we face the effects of climate change. She has traveled around the globe researching city-based climate solutions that improve public health as part of her new project, Parachute. Investigating how cities in the United States and around the world become more beautiful, livable and resilient in the face of our changing environmental climate, Lyn is taking a novel approach and publishing her findings and stories from people most affected in real-time.
Prior to Parachute, Lyn was the Associate Director at the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, where she led initiatives to translate public health research into climate action. Lyn was Director of Public Health at Helena in Los Angeles, where she led projects from innovative healthcare finance to direct air carbon capture. These experiences have fueled her passion for impact-driven, real-world solutions to climate change. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tuatara80]

As a volunteer myself, I just wanna say thank God we have people like Lyn Stoler who are people of action. Unfortunately, for every young people like her who work for the environment, we have a thousand old naysayers and critics who do nothing but speak of the world as if they were intellectuals.

[@stanko00001]

I genuinely hope more GenZ kids are like her
Please help us fix this mess of a world.

[@nadiabauco2484]

It truly means just waiting for those who arent affected to finally see it for themselves. I love this.

[@climatesolutioncenter]

Love it, stay positive. We can do this. We have the technology!

[@lucasboisneau4256]

Technology won't save us, we have to change our societies completely so that economic growth is not the goal anymore

[@bumbelbee500]

I come from Perth Australia. The Anning industry was meant to submit a new planning code for medium density developments that would enshrine open space, trees, and well designed buildings. Instead, the government blocked the action citing the housing crisis and that it would drive up development costs. Understandable, though they scrapped the entire policy.

[@remidransart8551]

why always technosolution, why can't we think about changing our way of living, consumption, living in coordination with nature ?

[@mitsuki1388]

We could but that would mean completely changing our way of produce and organize the society and there's a few very rich people that don't like this perspective (and honestly, only them, they're the only ones who would lose anything)

[@rogiervantilburg3440]

Well done! I am working on multiple products made from scrap wood.

[@Timlagor]

Anger is the appropriate mental state not optimism

[@thf456]

Right, this is really just new optimism and greenwashing using mental health as a springboard. Depressing in itself.

[@Musecollective]

Now that paradise (Maui) has been decimated will we STOP?! 😡

[@importedmusic]

Look up Dr Judith Curry's perspectives on Climate change and its quite a contrast to what tinkerbell is telling us.

[@user_user1337]

Wow, what a delusion!

[@--RSL--]

👎🏻

[@charlesedwards5333]

The world is burning up and she is talking about playing house and investing

[@Harry244ful]

This is absolute rubbish! Eco anxiety exists purely to worry those who do not know any better!

[@TheMysteryMachine]

do your own TedTalk professor

[@CătălinaMaria1896]

Shut up