How to De-Zombify People
Andrew: You’re convinced we’re definitely going down, and fast. You’ve shut the door. Joanna Macy still holds that door open. She thinks we might make it through, though we very certainly may not. I pressed her on it. Was she just hedging her bets? No. And she’s designed her work to prepare us for both possibilities. I sum up her existential
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Today, the constant onslaught of damning information about environmental degradation is impossible to ignore. To survive, the human psyche resorts to a cognitive dissonance. I couldn’t simultaneously feel the weight of shrinking biodiversity in the Amazon, coral bleaching in the Maldives and koalas caught in Australian bushfires every day because
... See moreIt can be hard to stave off despair these days. We’re inundated with bad news about everything from COVID-19 to the mounting threats against democracy to, of course, climate change. The headlines on that front have been particularly awful.