Holding Ground: Climate, Ecology, and the Struggle for a Livable Future

Holding Ground is a series of interviews hosted by Adam Aron. It asks: How do we respond amid increasing climate disruption, ecological overshoot, and authoritarianism?

Holding Ground is about both the inner and outer work of responding: facing difficult feelings and uncertainty while making room for joy—and organizing, strengthening communities, and struggling for a livable future without guarantees of success.

Conceived, recorded, produced & financed by Adam Aron: adamaron@ucsd.edu

Theme Music Credit: Jim Guerin

Artwork Credit: Carolina Montejo

Host

Adam Aron

Adam Aron is a professor of psychology at UC San Diego and a climate & ecological activist. After a 20 year career in neuroscience, his research is now focused on the social science of collective action.

Adam was active in the Fossil Fuel Divestment movement in the University of California, co-founded the Green New Deal at UC San Diego, and was an initiator of the Power San Diego effort to win not-for-profit public ownership of the city's electric grid. In 2023 he published The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements, Cambridge University Press.

Adam grew up in eSwatini, attended Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa and earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge.