“Modern society is an extreme, pathological state of rupture from the reality of the natural world, as is indicated on … More

We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction and restlessness. We refuse to recognize that … More

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell observes in “Hothouse Earth is Merely the Beginning of the End” that … More

I’m inspired to talk about hope by this brilliant essay by Quinn Norton that appeared recently on Empty Wheel: A … More

I and many other radical ecopsychologists maintain that when it comes to the climate crisis, mainstream psychology is a big … More

To sleep, to dream, to keep the dream in reach  To each a dream, don’t weep, don’t scream  Just keep … More

“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.”

The climate crisis is being played out on the high seas. What can perhaps most accurately be described as a … More