Generation Dread: Now in Paperback 🧡
Get your copy with a new cover design and fresh foreword by Adam McKay!
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We are beyond delighted that Generation Dread (a finalist for The Governor General’s Award and national bestseller in Canada) is now here in two new paperback versions - one for Canada and one for the US, no less! They’ve arrived with shiny, new cover designs and a banging foreword by Adam McKay (Writer/Director/Producer of Don't Look Up, Succession)!
Britt will be donating a chunk of proceeds from the paperback sales to frontline climate activists via the Climate Emergency Fund. Any support you may be able to offer through sales is deeply appreciated.
When we’re faced with record-breaking temperatures, worsening wildfires, more severe storms, food shortages, migration crises, and other devastating effects of the climate crisis, feelings of anxiety and despair are normal. But they’re no place to get stuck. In Generation Dread, Britt reminds us that our distress is, at its heart, a sign of our connection to and love for the world. The first step toward becoming a steward of the planet who embraces the power of grief for mobilizing change is connecting with our climate emotions—seeing them as a sign of our humanity and compassion, feeling them fully, and then learning how to live with them.
As a scientist and expert on the psychological impacts of the climate crisis, Britt weaves together research, insight from climate-aware therapists, lessons from communities that have long-lived under existential threat, and personal experience, to illuminate how we can connect with others, find purpose, joy, and ultimately thrive in a warming world.
But don’t just take our word for it, let’s see what Naomi Klein, Gabor Maté, David Wallace-Wells and others are saying about Generation Dread 🧡
“If you are ready to feel through eco-anxiety, grieve what’s lost, and imagine what comes next, read this courageous book.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire and This Changes Everything
“In this intriguing and engaging work, Britt Wray explores the internal ecology of climate anxiety with insight and sensitivity. She shows finally that meaningful living is possible even in the face of that which threatens to extinguish life itself, and that addressing global climate change begins with attending to the climate within.” —Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No
“Generation Dread is a marvelous exploration of many of the divergent, sometimes contradictory, sometimes paradoxical, but always human ways in which we navigate the effects of climate change, with ideas for how we might do so more productively and healthily in the future.” —David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth
“What a gift. Generation Dread meets the unsettled soul with kinship and insight.” —Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, climate strategist and co-editor of All We Can Save
“With utmost empathy and wisdom, Britt Wray explores how we can stay engaged with hard truths and act responsibly in their light. This book was just what I needed and I read it twice.” —Joan Thomas, Governor General’s Award-winning author of Five Wives
“An extraordinary exploration of the emotional and psychological toll environmental chaos is already exacting. It’s also a road map out from under that burden, made all the more compelling by the way it tracks [Wray’s] own journey. . . . If Generation Dread has one overriding theme, it’s that community saves, and that trust and mutual care are its foundations.” —Maclean’s
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‘Till next time!
Generation Dread was an immense help to me when I first read it and I continue to return to it as a resource. You can read more about Britt Wray’s book and my climate journey in my recently published book review where I take a more personal approach than a typical review. Now I’ve used the book review as a source for creating a poem that I’ll be reading tomorrow Sat Sept 9 2pm at Agincourt Library in Toronto/Tkaronto at our Scarborough Poetry Club’s “Poetry for a Warming World” event. I’ll share my poem soon :) For now here’s the link to the book review https://issuu.com/richardgrove1/docs/devour_summer_issue_017_-_book_block_-_with_bleed_/20
Are you Canadian?
Ordering your book from Indigo! :)