October 2020
In 2017 I posted an essay on the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) website, entitled “Awakening. Further thoughts on Radical Hope”. This current piece continues the 1 theme since waking up is absolutely central in this twenty-first century. In the original essay I drew attention to two essential kinds of waking up: firstly, waking up to the evidence of climate change, our part in causing it, and what it means for the future of the planet; and secondly, waking up to ourselves. Perhaps it is awareness of this second form of waking up that will help us understand our denial of the first. After all, the challenge of climate change and mass extinction calls for a change in our own nature.