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The Climate Emotions Wheel can help us process what we feel about climate . It has four color-coded quadrants – anger, positivity, sadness and fear – each with its own subcategories of more specific emotions such as outrage, panic, empowerment and inspiration. Dr. Panu Pihkala, an adjunct professor of environmental theology at the University of Helsinki, says that each emotion is accompanied by a key question. US-based environmental activist Shankar Narayan, who uses the Climate Emotions Wheel in his teaching with adults, says the wheel helps legitimize a whole range of feelings around climate change, beyond grief, such as empathy, hope and empowerment. The wheel has now been made available in 30 languages.