3.12 Psychedelics and Climate Activism, with Amber X. Chen

Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights

This episode of Spotlights features Amber X. Chen, a freelance journalist from Southern California whose work focuses on environmental justice. She contributed to several publications, including the climate and culture magazine Atmos, where she recently wrote a piece about the relationship between psychedelics, climate change, and environmental justice, "Tripping for the Planet: Psychedelics and Climate Change." She discusses the problems and promises that psychedelics hold for the climate action toolkit, noting the particular importance of prioritizing the Indigenous communities for whom sacred plant medicines are part of their culture. You can read the full story here: https://atmos.earth/psychedelics-plant-medicine-climate-activism/