Nature is the Answer (a toolkit for eco-positivity)

Nature is the Answer is a book about facing eco-anxiety, but turning your concerns about the climate and wildlife into something positive.

Climate breakdown (for those of us who believe the scientists over media and politics) can feel overwhelming. Literally the world will end, unless those in power listen too.

But that doesn’t mean you have to get down. The wild world is an amazing and resilient place. And if eco-anxiety is caused by the state of nature, perhaps the state of nature has answers to our eco-anxiety!

This book (by a popular wildlife presenter who also has Asperger’s Syndrome (which means like Greta Thunberg, he struggles in social situations) knows what it’s like to suffer from eco anxiety. And has developed ways to turn this into a strength, so you can too!

Walks through forest will do far more for your worries, than reading about what Reform UK will do, if elected to power. Apparently the party has just hired an environmentalist, after finding out that 80% of their voters are just as concerned about their (non-existent) policies for wildlife, as with immigrants.

The book also includes information on how to navigate social media (be nice!) and discerning ‘fake news’ (that’s climate science denial, not any channel that’s not Fox News!)

About the Author

Chris Packham is one of England’s most popular TV wildlife presenters, who hosts BBC Springwatch and Autumnwatch alongside Michaela Strachan and Iolo Williams, and he is step-father to fellow conservationist Megan McCubbin, with whom he often works.

A real champion of native wildlife, he even took the government to court (he lost) to try to stop HS2 (due to it decimating our forests and wildlife). And has written an open letter to Ant and Dec, to ask them to stop presenting a program that kills wildlife (and disrupts ecosystems) for ‘entertainment’.

Circuses and dancing bears have gone, cock-and-dog fighting are the preserve of psychopathic criminals. We have no performing dolphins, no chimpanzees dressed up for tea time. Exploitation of wildlife for entertainment, damages the reputation of a ‘nation of animal lovers’.

A qualified zoologist, Chris used science to oppose the badger cull, which has now been cancelled, but not with immediate effect. Read more on how to prevent bovine TB (without harming badgers).