“Modern society is an extreme, pathological state of rupture from the reality of the natural world, as is indicated on…
The Recurring American Nightmare That Haunts us in Our Sleep
We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction and restlessness. We refuse to recognize that…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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…