Week 5 – Blog & Reflection

This week, I found resources according to references and citations lists, but this time from a different study. A source that I found last week — about educational empowerment (Jones et. al.) — had a lasting impression on me because of how it transformed my view on climate anxiety, and I decided to branch off of it. From that sources, the sources that I found this week were centered around the topics of climate education and dealing with/mitigating climate anxiety. I feel that at this point, many of these topics are recurring to me, so although I am not discovering many new aspects of climate anxiety, I am digging deeper than ever before on certain aspects that I’ve already read about. For instance, I am learning about many specific ways that we can help young people experience the negative effects of climate anxiety to a minimal extent. That is, but not limited to, have positive emotions for better coping, acknowledge preexisting painful emotions, and anger consensus messaging can improve support for climate mitigation. The research that I’m finding now is very different from what I found in previous weeks of this internship. For instance, all I read about was the mere fact that we need to help young people deal with climate anxiety, rather than how we can help. It is rewarding to see that as my research criteria is advancing, so are my research discoveries!