We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction and restlessness. We refuse to recognize that … More
Author: ecopsi2day
Earth Protector. Wildlife Advocate. Doctor of Natural Law(yer), Ecopsychologist, Author of book "Climate Sense: Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Chaos" as well as academic papers "Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma" and "The Climate Crisis & the Cosmic Bomb: Is the American Dream the Result of Cultural Trauma?" in the peer-reviewed journal "Ecopscychology." Long-time devoted dharma practitioner and hospice volunteer. Motivated by compassion.
NO HOPE FOR HUMAN NATURE IN A HOTHOUSE WORLD?
In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell observes in “Hothouse Earth is Merely the Beginning of the End” that … More
HOPE is more than just a 4-letter word!
I’m inspired to talk about hope by this brilliant essay by Quinn Norton that appeared recently on Empty Wheel: A … More
#CallMeByMyName: CLIMATE TRAUMA
Why Ecopscychology Now?
I and many other radical ecopsychologists maintain that when it comes to the climate crisis, mainstream psychology is a big … More
Taking The Climate Crisis Personally
To sleep, to dream, to keep the dream in reach To each a dream, don’t weep, don’t scream Just keep … More
The Banality of Climate Change
“Banality” means that collective evils can be perpetrated without corresponding individual motives: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil… the phenomenon of evil deeds, committed on a gigantic scale, which [can] not be traced to any particularity of wickedness, pathology, or ideological conviction in the doer, whose only personal distinction was a perhaps extraordinary shallowness.”
WORLD WAR SEA
The climate crisis is being played out on the high seas. What can perhaps most accurately be described as a … More
