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Building ecological grief literacy in workplaces can help environmental professionals manage constant exposure to the many causes of their grieving.
News about the growing ecological crisis may cause people to feel grief and fear. It is understandable to seek relief from these feelings and look for good news. But what if grief is the good news?
Wes Anderson’s film ‘Asteroid City’ encompasses an environmental grief that manifests as failure to accept an uncontrollable reality.
By including five extinct species in its Bird of the Year competition, Forest & Bird provides a way to mourn what we’ve lost – and also strive to save what remains.
Set in the smoky shadow of Australia’s 2019 and 2020 bushfire season, Flanagan explores the loss of our world through the shattering of a family.
The destruction of recent fires is challenging our belief that with enough time, love and money, every threatened species can be saved. But there is plenty we can, and must, now do.
You may associate grief with the loss of loved ones, but it’s also a useful way to think about ecological breakdown.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Ecological grief - the mourning that takes place when we lose parts of the natural world - is likely to affect more of us in the future.
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Vice-Provost, Labrador Campus & Dean, School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Research fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato
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Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Physical Education and General Education, Mount Royal University
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Julie Dean is a Friend of The Conversation.
Health Services Researcher, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia