Finding a Way Through: Teaching with Naomi Klein’s How to Change Everything

The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

Kirsten Hunt

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v1i1.5322

Keywords: climate change, eco-anxiety, nonfiction, hope, youth climate activism, Green New Deal, system change, How to Change Everything


Abstract

In this reflection I share insights from reading Naomi Klein’s How to Change Everything with undergraduate elementary education majors. I discuss how Klein’s book offered pre-service teachers clear pathways for alleviating their own eco-anxiety and how it equipped them to help their future students navigate climate emotions.