Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' George Monbiot

An urgent, eye-opening study by leading climate change activist, researcher and writer that draws on the latest research and evidence to unravel systemic ways that climate change is driving people mad - and show how we can find inspiration in that madness.

About the author

CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG is a researcher, writer and award-winning activist. A proudly mad bipolar double amputee, he has worked for the New Economics Foundation, the Royal Society of Arts, the Good Law Project, the Four Day Week Campaign and the Centre for Progressive Change, as well as the UK Labour Party under three consecutive leaders. Charlie has spoken at the LSE, the UN and the World Economic Forum. He has been an activist and organiser since his teens. He has founded two organisations and was involved in staging a publicised walk-out of Gregory Mankiw's economics lectures, the Harvard professor who was George Bush's senior economic advisor. As well as Harvard, he has studied at SOAS and Schumacher College and has written for The Ecologist, The Independent, Novara Media, Open Democracy and The Guardian.

Summary

'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' George MonbiotAn urgent, eye-opening study by leading climate change activist, researcher and writer that draws on the latest research and evidence to unravel systemic ways that climate change is driving people mad - and show how we can find inspiration in that madness.

Product details

• Authors: Charlie Hertzog Young, Charlie Hertzog-Young
• Publisher: Footnote Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9781804440315
• ISBN: 978-1-80444-031-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 213 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Political activism, Disability: social aspects, Care of people with mental health issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement