In 2013, professor Sarah Jaquette Ray realized her environmental studies students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, had a problem.
Like many educators, Ray observed a growing number of students struggling with mental health problems stemming from an unexpected source: the climate crisis.
“I felt like there was a really missing story there about the aspects of climate and contemporary politics and the state of the world that wasn't being included in those
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