The more news about the impending consequences of climate change, the more I wonder why individuals react so slowly to the reality of climate change. Many behavioral scientists now attempt to address this issue. In the UK an organization called Climate Psychology Alliance serves as a hub for analysts and other practitioners of therapy who try to understand the human relationship to climate change. Last summer, they published my “letter from the U.S.” I’ve been wondering whether or not too much time spent on technology and indoors can lead to a flattening of consciousness. Maybe we need to re-dimensionalize human consciousness?
Posts Tagged ‘emotional reaction to climate change’
Unresponsiveness to climate change: one reason
January 20, 2014Psychology, Psychoanalysis and the Environment
June 4, 2010
The environmental seminar at IARPP launched this week with a mix of emotional response to the Gulf Oil Coast and some salient points regarding the interface between psychology, psychoanalysis and the environment. Many ventured to discuss the significance of environmental devastation on life as we know it. People’s lives are being affected now see here and here . Most expressed a passionate and challenging set of responses to the Gulf Coast oil spill ranging from sadness, fear, and apathy. Here are some salient topics unders discussion so far: (more…)