Kate Bradshaw

Britt Wray is a Stanford University postdoc and the author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.” Courtesy Sebastian Wray.

Wray discusses her book, which is framed around her decision about whether to have a child in a climate crisis, and advice for navigating the stormy seas of climate change.

By Kate Bradshaw

Published Jan. 31, 2023 in The Six Fifty.

Britt Wray, a Stanford postdoc who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, talked to The Six Fifty about her book “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis,” which debuted last year. In its pages, she discusses the mental health impacts of the climate crisis, especially on young people who are increasingly agitated that the planet is facing unprecedented threats due to the actions of previous and current generations. 

Wray, who writes the “Gen Dread” newsletter and is a Human and Planetary Health postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, shares her insights about her own journey in grappling with the mental health toll of the climate crisis, offers advice on what people in the Bay Area should do to build resiliency and recommends ways everyone, especially young people, can work toward coping and acting to more effectively face the climate crisis. 

Read the Q&A here.