Sustainable Path Foundation presents Renee Lertman:
The Myth of Climate Change Apathy
9/16, Wednesday – 7pm door, 7:30pm start – Tickets $5

Do personal anxieties and emotional responses to ecological problems hinder our ability to act effectively? According to Royal Roads University’s Renee Lertzman, tackling climate change takes more than behavioral changes–it also requires an underlying shift in human emotions. She argues that rather than being apathetic to global environmental issues, people care deeply–they just don’t know how to reframe their thinking. She’ll discuss the psychology of climate change, outline strategies for fixing our so-called apathy, and explain why it’s important to mobilize for change now, before it’s too late.

Renee Lertzman, PhD, has been teaching and consulting in the environmental and climate sectors for two decades. Her research focuses on addressing public apathy and applying insights from psychological practice to support, unleash, and unlock our capacities. She teaches in the MA Environmental Education and Communications program at Royal Roads University, is a Fellow with the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and works with organizations internationally. She is the author of Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement, a textbook featuring her research on apathy and environmental action, and is working on the follow-up, The Myth of Apathy.