With a lifelong deep interest and education in each of the sciences, combined with a shared concern for the planet and future generations, I can genuinely and compassionately connect to those experiencing environmental anxiety.
Fortunately, my extensive experience in both media, and in working with a variety of industries, I have been exposed to people and approaches that offer environmental improvements that are as effective as they are sincere.
This large collection of viable but notably unsexy solutions are simply given too little attention in a media world obsessed with using spectacle, fear, and polarization as a method of attracting audiences. Yet, without those relevant facts, audiences see no valid reason to question the overly dark narrative interpretations that are often used to motivate one form of consumerism or other.
Whether it is climate, pollution, agriculture, animal welfare or extinction—once people are aware of these meaningful actions, and more aware of the intentional use of fear in marketing, people find themselves comforted by that more complete picture of our shared reality.
The fact that there are still many environmental scientists that have genuine scientific reasons to be optimistic about our future, helps illustrate the fact that, despite the very real challenges we’re facing, more positive perspectives are neither naive or foolish.
Regardless of your age—and especially if you’re young with a long future ahead of you: these are realities that can be both explained, and comfortably accepted by any reasonable person.
If you would like to learn to allay your valid concerns through more exposure to equally valid reasons for optimism, then contact me by email at scottis@relaxandsucceed.com. From there, we can arrange a no-obligation time to talk, and I can share a small sample of these some comforting examples of very real answers to some of today’s biggest challenges.
NOTE: If you want to know more about my background and/or my approach, the links in this note will get you to further information in that regard.
