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Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Ray, an environmental studies professor at Cal Poly Humboldt and author of .

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In her keynote lecture, Atkinson highlighted ways that anxiety and despair are rising along with global temperatures. To successfully face the challenges ahead, she argued, we need to build more than solar panels and sea walls: we also need to build the emotional resilience to stay engaged in climate work over the long haul. Her talk offered five key steps for navigating the psychological and emotional impacts of climate change while channeling our anxiety into collective efforts to create a livable future.

The lecture is available on and also as a with the Collective Climate Action series.

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The first essay, “Sex work and Criminalization,” is a revised and updated version of Lerum’s essay by the same name appearing in the 2016 The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. The essay defines sex work within the context of sexual regulation and criminalization, examines LGBTQ+ participation in sex work, and discusses how contemporary LGBTQ+ sex worker activists are both partnering with human rights and global health experts and finding connections with movements for anti-racist and anti-carceral social transformation.

The second essay, “Trafficking in the Sex Trades,” summarizes the politics of defining human trafficking, discusses the connection between invalid and unreliable definitions with carceral anti-trafficking policies, and highlights how LGBTQIA+ individuals may be impacted by these carceral approaches.

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published in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journal PNAS Nexus, summarizes the grave threats facing the planet but rejects a “doom and gloom” philosophy. Instead, the authors argue, the threats should motivate swift and substantial actions to shift civilization. According to the authors, industrial capitalism and its focus on wealth and profit rather than true sustainability and healthy relationships with the planet and with each other are major impediments to decarbonization, conserving natural resources, and ensuring social equity. Therefore, the authors argue, governments should enforce radical, immediate cuts in fossil fuel use, eliminate environmentally harmful subsidies, and restrict trade that generates pollution or unsustainable consumption.

Following Indigenous principles of land management, the authors argue, governments must build a new era of reciprocity and kinship with nature and decouple economic activity from net resource depletion. According to the authors, it is critical to support gender justice by supporting women’s and girls’ education and rights, which reduces fertility rates and raises the standard of living. The authors call for a global cultural shift in values, aided by education, robust policy, economic incentives, cross-sector partnerships, community empowerment, corporate accountability, technological innovation, leadership, and cultural narratives delivered through art and media.

According to the authors, humanity must stop treating its major crises as isolated challenges, and instead establish a systemic response based on kinship with nature that recognizes our metacrisis as multiple symptoms of ecological overshoot, and recognizes Earth as our lifeboat in the cosmic sea of space.

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The workshops are part of CSU’s Faculty Learning Community, which helps instructors incorporate climate change and resilience into their teaching. The series features leading experts in climate science, climate communications and policy. In addition to the most recent workshop facilitated by Atkinson and Ray, sessions have been led by the following experts:

• Dr. Britt Wray, Director of CIRCLE at Stanford University.
• Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown, an interdisciplinary environmental scientist with experience spanning academia, business, and the nonprofit sector.
• Katherine Noble, the Climate Manager of Solutions Journalism Network.
• Matt Scott, director of storytelling and engagement for Project Drawdown, and other national leaders in climate education, research and activism.

To learn more about centering emotion in climate education and climate communication, visit , or read her new book , forthcoming May 2024 with University of California Press.

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In introducing this episode on , Crosscut host Maleeha Syed summarized her interview with Atkinson: “It’s hard to miss the signs of climate change. The ocean’s heating, ice sheets are melting and – in places like Washington – wildfire seasons are getting longer. But climate change isn’t just impacting our landscape: It’s also affecting our mental health. In this episode of Crosscut Reports, host Maleeha Syed talks with Jennifer Atkinson, an associate teaching professor at the 56łÔąĎÍř, about the difficult emotions many of us experience with these changes – and what we can do to navigate them.”

Listen to the full interview on .

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