Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future - Couverture rigide

Kiehl, Jeffrey T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231177186 ISBN 13 : 9780231177184

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 Jungian analyst, 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, which lead us to deny the reality of our warming planet.

But it is not too late. 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 substantial and sustaining.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231177186
• ISBN 13: 9780231177184
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible