These days, climate graphs look like fever charts, extinction rates read like obituaries and the daily news has the emotional texture of a storm that never clears. Across the world, people working ...

Joanna Macy, a pioneer in facing the emotional stress caused by climate change, who wrote books and led workshops on what became known as eco-despair or eco-anxiety, died July 19 at her home in ...

In 1977, while visiting one of her three children in college, and on the cusp of completing her own Ph.D. in religion, Joanna Macy attended an environmental conference in Boston organized by Jacques ...

Joanna Macy — who died on July 19, 2025 at the age of 96 — argued that despair in the face of ecological and nuclear threat was not a weakness but a sign of care, and that refusing to feel it led to ...

With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair. By Trip Gabriel Joanna Macy, a pioneer in ...