As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.
“I’ve been considering the response of humans to climate change through the lens of the classic five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Honestly, we’ve barely begun.”