Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
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professor, chair, author, speaker climate justice, environment, emotions, + activism
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Grist
about 1 month ago
Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all. Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Maps
#Chicago
#Toxic
#Health
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Chicagoās lead pipe crisis, mapped
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
https://grist.org/accountability/chicago-lead-pipe-replacement-map-health/
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Why Climate Magic? "We are the magicians,"- Krista Franklin
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
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Why Climate Magic?
A new podcast on the emotional life of climate politics to support the climate-weary and leverage our hearts and minds in service of the planet.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaquetteray/p/why-climate-magic?r=cweo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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How can we leverage our hearts and minds for better climate action and collective healing? This is the topic of my new podcast, Climate Magic, now available on Spotify and Apple. Please share and follow! Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-...
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6q5sdP1...
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https://podcasts.apple.com/.../climate-magic/id1836007339
about 1 month ago
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"Should we be alarmed, not just by the material effects that will come from defunding climate research, but by the seemingly innocent dropping of the mere word 'climate change' from public discourse? And what are theĀ benefitsĀ of unnaming climate?ā
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Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaquetteray/p/unnaming-climate?r=cweo3&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Has the word "climate change" lost its utility? Do we need to to speak of "climate change" to work for climate justice? Short answer: Yes, and no! Think this through with me-
open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaq...
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Unnaming Climate
Aside from the material attacks on climate science and life on this planet, a more subtle discursive erasure is also afoot. What's lost--and gained--in unnaming climate?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaquetteray/p/unnaming-climate?r=cweo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Hurt People Hurt the Planet: "The punisher, misogynist, anthropocentrist, abuser, and hater are all taking up residence in me. Theyāre not just āout thereā ... I can confront those forces right here, right now, at the frontlines of my own nervous system."
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Hurt People Hurt the Planet
Healing isn't just for yourself. It's a theory of change, and we need it more than ever as institutions fail us.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaquetteray/p/hurt-people-hurt-the-planet?r=cweo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Can we make giving a shit about others cool again?
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The Solution to All the Problems
Can we make giving a shit about others cool again?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahjaquetteray/p/the-solution-to-all-the-problems?r=cweo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research.
sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
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The Weaponization of Youth Climate Anxiety
How the right is using young people's worries about their future to destroy the planet
https://sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weaponization-of-youth-climate
3 months ago
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From "Ok, boomer" to the Third Act, it's good to see this shift in the role of boomers in activism. Let's keep moving toward intergenerational coalition-building! Great piece by
@billmckibben.bsky.social
and
@akayawind.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare
If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-08/donald-trump-protest-age-groups-third-act
4 months ago
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Let's get money out of politics so we can get people in office who represent the people. Latest news on climate politics of Americans, plus how many Americans disapprove of current immigration and economy policies, suggests we aren't voting in alignment with our politics.
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4 months ago
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What's in a name? "āClimate changeā sounds like a phrase that a government agency might employ to justify new fishing regulations or a phenomenon a scholar from outside the community might study... too political, too cold, too loaded to map onto everyday life.ā
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
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In N.C., Climate Change Is HappeningāJust Don't Call It That
Rising seas and stronger storms are reshaping coastal North Carolina, but many avoid terms like climate change even as they live its effects.
https://www.theassemblync.com/environment/climate-change-down-east/
4 months ago
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Dana Fisher's survey results from NoKings events Saturday. "Consistent with the Resistance to the Trump Administration during its first term, the majority of hosts and participants were female, predominantly white, and highly educated".
danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/t...
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The Resistance Rises to Declare #NoKings
On June 14th, while Donald Trump held a military parade in our nationās Capitol, millions of people across the US mobilized to protest the actions of the Trump Administration and its policiesā¦
https://danarfisher.com/2025/06/15/the-resistance-rises-to-declare-nokings/
4 months ago
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Zeddy
4 months ago
Bsky doesn't have enough users to change discourse by itself. But clean UI/lack of algos probably makes it underrated as an organizing tool for highly engaged Ds & lefties. Protests happen, TikTok/Insta then extend reach to normies. Minimized coverage because of media cuts/billionaire throttling.
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Burnout and fatalism are everywhere, and it feels good to be in community with people in the nonprofit/philanthropy world. Thanks to
@jimrendon.bsky.social
for being such a great interviewer and writer for this piece!
www.philanthropy.com/article/feel...
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Feeling Burned Out, Overwhelmed, and Outmatched? This Professor Has Some Advice
Finding community is the āholy grailā to keep going when youāre trying to solve social problems against what seem like impossible odds. Joy is important, too.
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/feeling-burned-out-overwhelmed-and-outmatched-this-professor-has-some-advice?emailConfirmed=true&supportSignUp=true&supportForgotPassword=true&email=sarahjaquetteray%40gmail.com&success=true&code=success&bc_nonce=ferkyskat3sy2ksbyibhk
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www.nokings.org
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No Kings
On June 14āFlag DayāDonald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isnāt staged in Washington. ...
https://www.nokings.org/
4 months ago
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Climate Magic's first episode with
@jyotimishra.bsky.social
aired yesterday, on climate mental health, wildfire and trauma, and collective healing. Follow the show!
open.spotify.com/episode/74sd...
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Dr. Jyoti Mishra: Neuroscience vs. Climate Change
Climate Magic Ā· Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/74sdyNCPHEohGmYflhNmWH?si=g0MwirqpQRCzxjR867CZog
4 months ago
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excited to launch a new show on our local radio program, and you can access it on
KHSU.org
, talking to smartie pants peeps about the emotional and cognitive life of climate politics:
www.khsu.org/show/climate...
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Climate Magic
It's hard to get your head around climate change. And it's not just you - our brains simply aren't wired to think about problems at that scale. And why would they be? Understandably, this can lead to ...
https://www.khsu.org/show/climate-magic
4 months ago
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this will be an awesome opportunity.
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4 months ago
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a great episode on climate anxiety and the kid question with Jade Sasser and Elizabeth Bechard:
www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1...
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Climate anxiety is changing how we think about kids. Should it? : Short Wave
Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. They learned about climate change in school; now, it's part of how they plan for the future, including ...
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/1266983774/kids-climate-change-anxiety-family
4 months ago
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
5 months ago
NEW: A majority of registered voters want federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FEMA to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming. Learn more in our new climate note:
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A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming
55% said federal agencies should do more to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/a-majority-of-registered-voters-want-federal-agencies-to-increase-their-efforts-to-protect-people-from-the-health-harms-of-global-warming-2/
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Talking to Yasmin and Natalie was so fun. They edited this into a beautiful episode, IMHO! Hope you enjoy, and share with your young peeps!
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5 months ago
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Today! 5/8/25! Join us.
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5 months ago
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Dr. Sandra Steingraber š³ļøāš
6 months ago
Hopeful news from CA! The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act (SB 684/AB 1243) has passed out of committee with a 9-4 vote. This legislation, already passed in VT and NYS, would compel fossil fuel polluters to pay for climate damage. Hereās more about it:
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Lawmakers Introduce California Bill to Make Polluters Pay for Climate Damage
Bill Comes After Historic L.A. Wildfires
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawmakers-introduce-california-bill-to-make-polluters-pay-for-climate-damage-2025-02-19/
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Environmental groups up next for possible removal of nonprofit status. Will Trump declare climate activism terrorism next?
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
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Environment Groups Prep for Possible Attack on Nonprofit Status
Major environmental groups are guarding against a potential order from President Donald Trump that could strip away their tax-exempt status, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg Law Wednesd...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/environment-groups-prep-for-possible-attack-on-nonprofit-status
6 months ago
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
6 months ago
āYes, theyāre anxious. But theyāre ignoring the cause of that anxiety, which is the failure of governments to act.ā Thank you,
@emorwee.bsky.social
!
heated.world/p/climate-sc...
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Climate science isn't giving your kid anxiety
Trump's newest argument for defunding climate science is that it's giving kids anxiety. But that's not really why kids are upset.
https://heated.world/p/climate-science-isnt-giving-your
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Go Harvard! Thanks to the Princeton pres and ex-pres of Columbia for making the interview rounds and setting the stage so we could get this Harvard outcome. Federal dollars SHOULD support research and higher ed as a collective good. But if the cost is an attack on democracy, we'll find another way.
6 months ago
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
6 months ago
CLIMATE JOURNALISTS! We need your help. Tell us what you need! Please share this important survey.
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Training Needs and their Psychological Impact on Environmental Journalists
WHY IS THIS RESEARCH STUDY BEING DONE? Despite journalists reporting mental health impacts related to their work on climate issues, this topic remains vastly understudied. Thus, in collaboration with ...
https://utulsapsychology.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AIdaDd9YLlttRA
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Iām hearing a lot of this- that the climate scientists are the one causing the anxiety, not climate change itself.
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6 months ago
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So cool. They just keep getting more and more data!
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6 months ago
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"Undermining the capacity for resistance is a precursor to consolidation of authoritarian power. When people are scared and isolated, they stop organizing... Ashamed, they go quiet.. Exhausted, they lose the ability to imagine something different." by Paul Shattuck
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Life Inside the Authoritarian Harm Complex: Understand It to Stay Human
Trump and Musk want to break you through a blitz of actions that destabilize every level of life. Seeing the pattern of personal and institutional harm is how you begin to resist and stay human.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paultshattuck/p/life-inside-the-authoritarian-harm?r=cweo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
6 months ago
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Join me as I moderate a panel of experts on the connections between
#authoritarianism
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#reproductivejustice
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#xenophobia
, and
#climatechange
, and how "imperfect solidarities" can help.
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6 months ago
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"When journalism is shaped by algorithms rather than journalistic ethics, our perception of reality shifts with it. We no longer see a mirror of the world - we see a reflection of whatever keeps us scrolling the longest." nice work
@branten.bsky.social
:
thestartingpoints.substack.com/p/when-truth...
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When Truth Crumbles: The Personal, the Political, and the Boundaries of Reality
From Trump to Bezos, from MeToo to colonial legacies - a journey through the truths we have lived by, the ones we have lost, and those we have yet to realize we need.
https://thestartingpoints.substack.com/p/when-truth-crumbles-the-personal
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Iām loving this book. How can we measureāand therefore better seeāhow climate change is affecting our lives? Reinforces how CC is a social problem as much as it is an env one.
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
10 months ago
This explanation is really helpful! Will be sitting with it. Something that caught my eye recently is
@sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social
saying 'Be less right, more in relation...'
youtu.be/65Zrd9SaDI0?...
(at 1h16m50s)
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When Climate Anxiety Leans Right: Eco Fascism, Buffalo and Roe
YouTube video by Climate Psychology Alliance NA
https://youtu.be/65Zrd9SaDI0?si=995iXs4Q-Z81R2da&t=4611
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Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD
Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels šŖ§š¢ļøā
11 months ago
thank you for the recommendation! The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World edited by Jennifer Atkinson &
@sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social
(
ucpress.bsky.social
2024) see
@nichecanada.bsky.social
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New Book - The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World
How can educators help students imagine thriving in a climate-changed world?
https://niche-canada.org/2024/06/13/new-book-the-existential-toolkit-for-climate-justice-educators-how-to-teach-in-a-burning-world/
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Thanks to WOHESC (Washington/Oregon Higher Ed Sustainability Conference) for an amazing time learning in community with brilliant students, staff, and faculty working on the just transition on PNW campuses.
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How does climate anxiety explain the far right? It's not denial, and science isn't the answer. "Framing disasters within a moral narrative gives an authoritarian agenda powerful justification."
thestartingpoints.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and the New Climate Feudalism: A Strategy for Dominance in a Collapsing World
A systemic shift - but not the one we hoped for
https://thestartingpoints.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-new-climate-feudalism?r=fih67&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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