"Generation Dread is a vital and deeply compelling read."--Adam McKay, award-winning writer, director, and producer (Vice, Succession, Don't Look Up) "Read this courageous book."--Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything
Britt Wray is a writer and researcher on the emotional and psychological impacts of the climate crisis and is the Director of Stanford Medicine’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health. Wray is also the author of Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics and Risks of De-Extinction. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Guardian, and Globe and Mail, among other publications. She speaks widely on the mental health consequences of ecological disruption, has hosted several podcasts, radio, and TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is the creator of Gen Dread, a newsletter about staying sane in the climate crisis: gendread.substack.com.Adam McKay is a film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and climate advocate. His productions have been nominated for multiple Academy Awards and include Don’t Look Up, Vice, The Big Short, and Succession. In 2019 he founded the production company Hyperobject Industries, referring to the “hyperobject” of climate change, which explains why the crisis is so hard to identify the bounds of and intervene in at the scale required.
