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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” Such considerations can be symbiotic, benefitting both the environment and individuals’ psychological wellbeing.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. Many women work in sectors like agriculture that require less formal education and are particularly sensitive to climate change.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. AT: You invented a great word, “insecuritized.”

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Substack for Nonprofit Communications

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Substack continues his observations on organizational psychology and company culture. You can also find his podcast and course on wealth and poverty here. Labor : Jason Stahl is the Executive Director of the College Football Players Association and writes about organizing and college sports.