I spent Saturday at a meeting on the psychological and political challenge of facing climate change at UWE.
George Marshall delivered the opening lecture – in witty and thought-provoking style. He guided us through the evidence for the deployment of ‘emotional management strategies’ or ‘psychological coping mechanisms’ that people use when confronted with a threat [...]
Stephen Hale, Director of the Green Alliance, published a report yesterday which calls for a new approach to the politics of climate change. It highlights the problem of the three-way stand-off between business, politicians and the public, and quite rightly identifies the primary role for government to address the problems we confront.
But, as Stephen argues, [...]
Ben Okri in today’s Times.
“[Our] only hope lies in a fundamental re-examination of the values that we have lived by in the past 30 years. It wouldn’t do just to improve the banking system - we need to redesign the whole edifice. There ought to be great cries in the land, great anger. But there [...]
Society needs a major shift in its core values to stave off an environmental crisis, warns a Yale report “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities”.
“For a long, long time the environmental community has been running on the original fuel from the 1970s,” said Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School [...]