First Impressions of Eco-Anxiety Scholarship & Activists in Finland
Experience Engaging with Climate Emotions Before Finland Although I certainly had a large community of environmental thinkers—especially my fellow members of the Climate Communication Advocacy and Literacy Laboratory (CCALL), which I talked about in my last blog post—at the University of Vermont for which I am endlessly grateful, I did at times feel misunderstood in my work on climate emotions. I got many curious but skeptical responses when talking about my research. It is possible this skeptically came from a place of unfamiliarity but it made me at times doubt the importance or value of my work. One of the reasons I wanted to come to Finland to study climate emotions was because , based on my understand ing , t he scholarship in the field appeared to be notably well-developed and conversations were being had much more readily here than they are in the United States and overall climate emotions is more of a salient issue in Finland . For example, the Finnish S