Facing Climate Change

An Integrated Path to the Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17718-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed psychotherapist, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world and their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature. He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the lived experience of climate change and the feelings of fear and loss they inspire, encouraging us to retreat into fantasy.

But all is not lost. By evaluating our way of being, Kiehl unleashes a potential human emotional understanding that can reform our behavior and help protect the Earth. Kiehl dives deep into the human brain's psychological structures and human spirituality's imaginative power, mining promising resources for creating a healthier connection to the environment and one another. Facing Climate Change is as concerned with repairing our social and political fractures as it is with reestablishing our ties to the world, teaching us to push past partisanship and unite around the shared attributes that are key to our survival. Kiehl encourages policy makers and activists to appeal to our interdependence as a global society, extracting politics from the process and making decisions about our climate future that are more substantial and sustaining.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiehl, Jeffrey T.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Changes1. A Journey from Climate Science to Psychology2. Learning to Embrace Change3. Facing Our Fears Associated with Climate ChangePart II. Patterns4. How Images Facilitate Transformation5. Opposites and Our Relationship to Climate Change6. Balancing the Opposites of Climate ChangePart III. Being7. Exploring Our Being in the World8. Beauty's Way in the World9. Why Meaning Is Important to Being in the WorldPart IV. Awakening10. How Our Many Worlds Are Entwined11. Recognizing the Importance of the Transpersonal12. Awakening to One WorldEpilogueFurther ReadingIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Kiehl, Jeffrey T.
Jeffrey T. Kiehl is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is the author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Jeffrey T. Kiehl is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a recipient of the AGU Climate Communication Prize. He is also a senior Jungian analyst with the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and the International Association for Analytical Psychology.