To address climate change we need to care more. Only felt care gives us the strength to act for the good and sustains our will to act in caring ways in tough dark times. Talk given at CONFER Conference The Psychology of Inspired Collective Climate Change Action The...
“Sue Roaf, in a wonderful phrase, called for architects to “reengineer their dreams” to build for a sustainable future. This means nothing less than restructuring the architectural imagination. … ” Opening of keynote address by Sally Weintrobe to SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 10 – 12 SEPT 2015: “ARCHITECTURE AND...
Genuine hope, unlike false hope, is a trusted steadfast belief, strengthened by the part of us that cares, that we will find a way to face things truthfully, even when this brings difficult feelings and moral challenges, and even when we find ourselves stuck at times. Here is a...
Joe Glenton, a British soldier, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2006 and went AWOL rather than return for a second tour. After months of wandering, taking drugs and feeling lost, he gave himself up. The army found him guilty of desertion and he served four of a nine-month custodial...
Here is David Wasdell (2014), Head of the Gaia Project, giving voice to a 21st Century dream of taking care. He was speaking on the centenary of Martin Luther King’s death: “I have a dream: That humanity will break out of its state of denial and find the courage...
Not enough attention is being paid to how climate news is likely to leave us feeling, and this matters greatly. When we feel unsupported we find it harder to bear climate news in a way that helps us live with it, and we are more likely to jump between...
In this talk on climate change I’ll start with a personal story. This spring my husband and I installed solar energy at home. I experienced a moment of shock and shame when, feeling pleased it was up and running, I asked myself why did it take us so long...
My subject is disavowal, currently the most common form of denial of climate change. We commonly think of disavowal as turning a blind eye to a disturbing truth, or ignoring it. With disavowal, we don’t deny the reality; rather we find ways to live with it that cause us...
Polly Higgins, in framing ecocide as a war crime, bursts the gargantuan bubble of complacency that allows us to maintain the fiction that we are living in a time of peace. We are living in the midst of a violent war being waged against Mother Earth and all her...
Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe talks to Laurie Taylor about denial of climate change, a central topic in a new book she has edited, Engaging with Climate Change. They’re joined by Paul Hogget, Professor of Politics at the University of the West of England and psychotherapist, one of the contributors to...