Climate Breakdown is undeniable and no one is coming to save us. How do we step into this moment? Rose reminds us we are the ones we have been waiting for.

"Our leaders are lost," said Nakate of Uganda, "and our planet is damaged." This week's Best in Climate article highlights the recent addresses by youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg at Youth4Climate summit. Originally published on CommonDreams.org.

Continuing our monthlong coverage on Climate anxiety, Shannon Thompson, the founder of Shakti Rising,  shares insights with Rose  from her 22 year history leading a trauma informed women's change organization.

In one Kenyan village, citizens are paid to plant mangroves rather than cut them, reducing deforestation and furthering economic and climate sustainability for the future.

In the year that has been transpired since we last spoke with thanatologist (climate grief specialist) Kriss Kevorkian, we have been hit head on with flooding, hurricanes, building collapse, droughts and wildfire. Neck deep in the knowledge of human caused climate change, Kriss offers her wisdom to help us cope .

In an excerpt from her 2012 novel "Flight Behavior" Barbara Kingsolver's characters explain the goal of 350 ppm and the frightening aspect of global temperature rise in a language every lay person can understand.  

Michele Smith shares her journey to founding the Resiliency School and offers a three step process to help us build our resilience muscle. 

Jillian Ambrose, the energy correspondent at Guardian News and Media details ways our climate grief is holding us back from taking action. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Barcelona Spain, Sidney Australia, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have all signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.

"Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we’ve got." Is it time for a Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, inspired by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? Lyn Adamson...

"Climate change and all of the problems in the world are energetically based, because we are all energy, whether you realize it or not." Christine chats with energy healer Sandra Boatman about the possibility that the roots of the planetary environmental crisis originate in human consciousness. They explore how this understanding can revolutionize how we think about ourselves and the world around us and offer practical ways to raise our own, and the planet's, level of consciousness.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström detail the current state of Planet Earth while offering a hopeful path of action to avert this ongoing crisis. This story originally appeared on Mongabay.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Wildfires, floods, and now the dire IPCC report ; collectively humanity is being traumatized by our uncertain future. Rose talks with psychotherapist Patricia Fero about naming this intense emotion and ways we can help one another through .

In this time of upheaval and division, Corina Luna Dea offers this powerfully hopeful  essay reminding us that it is not too late for us to embrace our true nature as caring beings.

At the crossroads between hope and despair, what direction will humanity choose ?

The IPCC report released on August 9, 2021 is clear:  We are at a tipping point. Escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Without immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to limit warming close to 1.5°C or even 2°C   Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth.  Humanity must take action. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

This is our all hands on deck moment. Can we choose to focus on the optimistic signs that humanity is ready for the challenge ahead? Richard Matthews, author of The Green Market Oracle, gives us compelling reasons for hope. 

Through an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants finally face a reckoning for the devastation they have knowingly caused by fossil fuels. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

"So began the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment, which is now 60 years old. A rewilding study before the term existed, it shows how allowing land to naturally regenerate can expand native woodland and help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss." This week's Best in Climate article highlights the benefits of doing nothing to reclaim wilderness other than leaving the land alone allowing it to naturally regenerate.

"There’s really no escaping fear, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. So how do we live with that fear? How do we process it?" In this Best in Climate episode, Christine shares the advice of the Be Here Now Network's teachers on ways to respond to the chaos of the current situation, politically and otherwise, with love, compassion, and equanimity. This article was written by Noah Markus on behalf of Love Serve Remember Foundation, and originally posted on RamDass.org.

"This summer I and my neighbours, along with the people of Lytton, and countless others across Turtle Island are feeling the consequences of our collective reckless disregard of the climate consequences of burning fossil fuels. This summer the wheel of karma is turning to expose the devastating effects of our culture’s worship of profit over anything else, including life itself." Christine discusses being a potential climate refugee, & how she brings together climate activism & energy...

"I’ve been a 'climate change warrior' for over ten years. It’s been like climbing uphill over loose gravel—for every step forward, we slid back two. The slow progress hasn’t been for lack of solutions. The slow progress has been for lack of relationship." In today's Best in Climate episode, published just after the July 4th celebrations in the United States, Davia Rivka shares the experience of sitting down to talk climate change solutions with people across politic divides.

Recorded after the historic cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Rose and Christine discuss whether activism is making a difference in creating the change we need in a time of climate crisis.

"The solution is clear: fossil fuels must be kept in the ground. Leaders, not industry, hold the power and have the moral responsibility to take bold actions to address this crisis." In this Best in Climate episode, Christine reads the letter recently signed by the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urging world leaders to cooperate and stop the expansion of fossil fuels globally. Read more at www.fossilfueltreaty.org.

As we watch climate change take hold, we are already seeing widespread natural disasters, tremendous biodiversity loss and the immigration of climate refugees. It seems that humanity is failing abysmally in our responsibility as stewards of our beautiful Planet Earth.  More than a mere scientific, economic or political debate, the climate crisis may be moral dilemma of our time.