Climate grief is a condition of our age. How do we reckon with our grief and understand its contours, while not allowing it to swallow us? Where and how do we go to grieve? How does our engagement with community, science and action affect our grief, and how does the language we use to describe the world around us impact our emotional state? In this talk, we'll look at grief, the language we employ around grief and climate change, and the art of memorial to attend to these questions.

About the Speaker

Lauren Markham is a fiction writer, essayist and journalist, and her work most often concerns issues related to youth, migration, the environment and her home state of California.

Markham has reported from the border regions of Greece and Mexico and Thailand and Texas; from arctic Norway; from gang-controlled regions of El Salvador; from depopulating towns in rural Sardinia and rural Guatemala, too; from home school havens in southern California; from imperiled forests in Oregon and Washington; from the offices of overwhelmed immigration attorneys in L.A. and Tijuana; from the upscale haunts of women scammed on the Upper East Side.