What To Do With Climate Anger

Plus, a climate solution from the '80s, 2024's clean energy win, and a lil celebratory dance.

As a first-born, eldest daughter, and textbook people-pleaser, I have never really gotten along with anger. I rarely feel entitled to it, and if I do, I worry that it will demand too much of me — that it will ask me to speak up or take action in a way I’m not ready to take. When it knocks on my door, I often turn off the lights and wait for it to give up and walk away.

That anger has been knocking a little harder lately; it’s hard to champion the planet’s success in 2025 without it. These past three months of climate disasters and “unseasonably warm” days combined with environmental rollbacks and outright denial are enough to outrage many of us. It’s inevitable.

But without a clear idea of what to do or how to process that outrage, it often turns into powerlessness. Anger demands action, but as individuals, the question is usually, will my action matter?

So what should we do with our anger? Let it hang out, get bigger and louder, make us feel worse? Distract ourselves from it? Visit a local rage room? These are some of the questions I asked climate psychologist Renée Lertzman, PhD, this week.

So keep scrolling, fuel up on some good news, and learn more about what to do when you start to feel the burn of anger.

Good climate news this week

🐟 An ecologist might have the answer to cleaning up toxic waste in oceans — and it’s been around since the ‘80s.

♻️ This entrepreneur started his own waste-management company — with a sustainable twist.

🧸 A popular toy company opened a new factory powered entirely by clean energy. Speaking of clean energy…

⚡️ It powered over 40 percent of the world’s electricity in 2024.

💰 Solar panels and heat pumps are usually only available to those who can afford them. This state piloted a program to change that.