Graduation Date
Spring 2025
Document Type
Project
Program
Master of Arts degree with a major in Social Science, Environment and Community
Committee Chair Name
Dr. Sarah Ray
Committee Chair Affiliation
Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Dr. Sara Sterner
Second Committee Member Affiliation
Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty or Staff
Third Committee Member Name
Christina Eskridge
Third Committee Member Affiliation
Community Member or Outside Professional
Keywords
Climate change, Gen Z, Youth mental health crisis, Climate emotions, Climate storytelling, Climate education, Affective climate justice
Subject Categories
Environment and Community
Abstract
My project is a co-created 6 part podcast series with youth and the program lead from the Climate Mental Health Network’s Gen Z Advisory Board informed by affective climate justice, youth, mental health and education. This work foregrounds the embodied climate knowing and being of youth climate activists, offers ideas for a different relationship to climate change and climate education futures. In this podcast, Gen Zers speak to the youth mental health crisis as it relates to climate. My thesis project engages with and invites conversations that reflect the climate itself, which is non-linear, complex, porous, creative, expansive, and woven through our everyday worlds (Verlie, 2022). The project offers a contribution to the climate story and to the emerging field of climate mental health and Gen Z climate emotions. This project does not offer neat climate solutions but welcomes in the active becoming of thinking and sharing out loud together as climate beings in a climate changed and changing world.
Citation Style
APA
Recommended Citation
Moszkowicz, Rachel Wynne, ""Gen Z Climate Being": podcast series on youth, climate emotions, and affective climate justice" (2025). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 2282.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/2282