Category Archives: Psychological impact of climate change

The ideology of simple painless steps

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. I’ve spent the last two days at a conference for environmental communicators, Communicate 08. There was a recurrent issue which ran through the whole conference – about the strategies that … Read more

Psychological counselling on climate change

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. Jules Peck just sent me this link to a document produced by the Australian Psychological Society, offering “suggestions for dealing with distressing feelings when learning about environmental problems”. Although environmental … Read more

What makes our species worth saving?

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. In a piece in this month’s Ecologist, Richard Heinberg reflects on the psychological impacts of an awareness of the impact of climate change. “Strategy shifts. We move from rehearsing ‘Fifty … Read more

What does climate change do to our heads?

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. A recent article on Wordchanging: A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change … Read more

Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from U.S. consumer capitalism to solve environmental problems

This blog was originally posted on the website Valuing Nature. The story may be familiar, but look who’s saying it. Speth was founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute. Will shifting from a GDP-driven … Read more