Fostering Sustainable Activism in the Climate Movement: Overcoming Anxiety & Burnouts

If the political movement to combat climate change is to be successful then all of us must overcome the pull to thinking in either terms and hold the tension between hope and despair. While the concept of climate or eco-anxiety has grown in everyday parlance recently, burnout within the campaigning community has garnered little attention to date.

Fostering sustainable activism in the climate movement may not always be the easiest thing to do. Young people around the world continuously experience anxiety and burnouts in their activism journey. We need to understand what is happening, how scary it is, and how we can work with others to channel that energy into something positive.

“Fostering Sustainable Activism in the Climate Movement: Overcoming Anxiety & Burnouts,” is a collaborative webinar organized by With YOUth ID together and Green Welfare Indonesia. The first session highlighted the speaker’s personal journey and breakthrough of becoming an activist in their prospective movements followed with an interactive discussion revolving the anxiety & burnouts that they have experienced and how they got around their ups and downs.