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Join us for a discussion on the history of estrangement and disconnection from nature, the birth of the idea of eco-anxiety and its spread. Our panellists: writer Melanie Challenger, ‘climate-aware' psychotherapist Caroline Hickman and journalist Siddarth Saxena will lead this conversation through various ideas around how we understand nature-human relations how this has transformed, biodiversity loss and our evasion of nature, how this is affecting the youth, and finding the language to express these anxieties.

We hope you can bring your voice to this event to discuss the impact on young minds, and how we can best address these deeply emotional responses to the planet's distress.

Melanie Challenger is a writer, researcher and broadcaster on environmental history and the history and philosophy of science, Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and a Vice President of the RSPCA. Her books include How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human (2021).

Caroline Hickman is a lecturer at the University of Bath in social work and climate psychology, a practicing ‘climate-aware’ psychotherapist, and a researcher focused on eco anxiety and distress about the climate and ecological crisis in children and young people globally.

Siddarth Shrikanth is the author of The Case for Nature. Siddarth holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA from Harvard. He previously worked in corporate sustainability for McKinsey and environmental policy for the World Bank, and was a writer at the Financial Times. He now works in climate and nature investing at Just Climate.

The title of the event was inspired by this book of poetry.