Climate change took them to ‘dark places.’ Now these Californians are doing something about it [calmatters.org]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 10/16/2312:00 PM

^{Maksim Batuyev is an environmental activist who runs climate cafes in Los Angeles. Sept. 27, 2023. Photo by Lauren Justice for Cal Matters}

By Shreya Agrawal, Cal Matters, October, 10, 2023

Maksim Batuyev’s college studies on the climate crisis left him feeling depressed.

“I was questioning the sheer gravity of it all and how all of it is systemic. None of it has an easy solution,” he said. “That really started to bring me into some dark places.”

During his senior year at Michigan State University, he started talking online to people from around the world about their emotions related to climate change, which ranged from feeling overwhelmed and scared about the future to grieving the parts of nature that have already been lost.

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