Sarah Jacquet‐Ray

Thank you so much. So nice to be here, Shankar.

Thank you so much. So nice to be here, Shankar.

Thank you so much. So nice to be here, Shankar.

Yeah. So I would say about 15 years ago when I started teaching environmental studies, it was a little bit of a boutique subject and people would come in and get the information, how bad things are, figure out how they can do some fixing and carry on with their merry way.

Yeah. So I would say about 15 years ago when I started teaching environmental studies, it was a little bit of a boutique subject and people would come in and get the information, how bad things are, figure out how they can do some fixing and carry on with their merry way.

Yeah. So I would say about 15 years ago when I started teaching environmental studies, it was a little bit of a boutique subject and people would come in and get the information, how bad things are, figure out how they can do some fixing and carry on with their merry way.

About 10 years ago, though, something really seemed to have shifted in my students where they were coming in already pretty informed about how bad things were. And so they would come to my office hours to tell me, oh, that reading or that movie or that thing that you showed in class really pulled the rug out from underneath me in whatever particular way.

About 10 years ago, though, something really seemed to have shifted in my students where they were coming in already pretty informed about how bad things were. And so they would come to my office hours to tell me, oh, that reading or that movie or that thing that you showed in class really pulled the rug out from underneath me in whatever particular way.

About 10 years ago, though, something really seemed to have shifted in my students where they were coming in already pretty informed about how bad things were. And so they would come to my office hours to tell me, oh, that reading or that movie or that thing that you showed in class really pulled the rug out from underneath me in whatever particular way.

It showed me that how complicit I am in the problem or how bad the future is going to look. And it got overwhelming for me. I couldn't contain it in my class or even in office hours.

It showed me that how complicit I am in the problem or how bad the future is going to look. And it got overwhelming for me. I couldn't contain it in my class or even in office hours.

It showed me that how complicit I am in the problem or how bad the future is going to look. And it got overwhelming for me. I couldn't contain it in my class or even in office hours.

Yeah, so this mom seems to be videotaping her son in the backseat in his car seat, and he's crying. He's really wailing. And he seems like he may have just learned in a class or somewhere else how much damage humans have done to the planet in the form of killing animals and trash. all kinds of things paving forests over with cement.

Yeah, so this mom seems to be videotaping her son in the backseat in his car seat, and he's crying. He's really wailing. And he seems like he may have just learned in a class or somewhere else how much damage humans have done to the planet in the form of killing animals and trash. all kinds of things paving forests over with cement.

Yeah, so this mom seems to be videotaping her son in the backseat in his car seat, and he's crying. He's really wailing. And he seems like he may have just learned in a class or somewhere else how much damage humans have done to the planet in the form of killing animals and trash. all kinds of things paving forests over with cement.

And he's really crying and devastated having learned the extent and scope of human impact on the planet. And he wants very much to get out there and fix it and yell at those adults.

And he's really crying and devastated having learned the extent and scope of human impact on the planet. And he wants very much to get out there and fix it and yell at those adults.

And he's really crying and devastated having learned the extent and scope of human impact on the planet. And he wants very much to get out there and fix it and yell at those adults.

Yeah, so it started going viral and everyone said, yeah, this feels just like my environmental studies classes. This is what you do to us, Sarah. And so it clarified for me that what was happening with the overwhelming information they were getting was that they were really melting down inside.

Yeah, so it started going viral and everyone said, yeah, this feels just like my environmental studies classes. This is what you do to us, Sarah. And so it clarified for me that what was happening with the overwhelming information they were getting was that they were really melting down inside.