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Can rituals help with our grief for the natural world?

Can rituals help with our grief for the natural world?

Science Weekly vor 3 Jahren

Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Claire White about how performing rituals can help to manage our emotions and channel them into action, and hears a eulogy for a lost glacier

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Last week, a scientific assessment found wildlife populations have
plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years. Such rapid and
significant losses are leaving many of us with a deep sense of
grief and anxiety. To make sense of these emotions and channel them
into action, people are increasingly performing rituals and
commemorative acts for the natural world. Madeleine Finlay speaks
to Prof Claire White about the power of rituals in bringing us
together to process grief, and hears from author Andri Magnason
about why he wrote a eulogy for Okjökull, the first Icelandic
glacier officially lost to the climate crisis. Help support our
independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod