Tori Tsui, a mental health activist and environmentalist, wrote the book It’s Not Just You: How To Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis as a way to dismantle individualism and nihilism in the environmentalist community through an intersectional lens. In her discussion with Daphne Chouliaraki Milner, Tsui discusses the shortcomings of the term eco-anxiety – specifically how it is often depicted as a fear of the future, ignoring the present-day and historic climate-related challenges people in the Global South and Black and Brown communities face. She emphasizes that the increasing rate of mental health crises across the globe is a reflection of an inequitable, unsustainable social and political system that prioritizes profiting off of distressed people instead of solving systemic issues. Milner and Tsui further discuss the meaning of community, maintaining that community is the people one surrounds themself with, not an unobtainable group of perfect people. Ultimately, Tsui emphasizes the need for collaboration, declaring that community is the antidote to capitalism.
