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tag: bookread
title: "Facing Climate Change"
author: Jeffrey T. Kiehl
publisher: Columbia University Press
publish: 2016-03-01
total: 192
isbn: 0231541163 9780231541169
cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JrNpCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api
status: unread
created: 2023-05-12 09:16:54
updated: 2023-05-12 09:16:54
genre: non-fiction
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# Progressive Summary
To deal with climate change, we must draw upon the resources of science, the unconscious (Jung), and Buddhism.
We have to work with images, because our psyche organizes itself around images.
We also have to work with polarities and opposites, and learn how to embrace them, and keep them in balance.
# Rough Notes
Opposites create discord:
- disagree, divisive, discount, disassociate, disconnect, distant.
- Dis was Roman name for the ruler of Hades. He owned what was buried in the ground (fossil fuels).
Good summary of Jung's ideas:
> Jung argues that the psyche, as a whole, is a self-regulating dynamic system. If an individual's psyche experiences a significant shock or alteration, either from the outer or inner world, then the archetypes provide a restorative force to life. How does this happen? Essentially, the outer disruption activates our inner world, and tension develops between this unconscious world and consciousness. This tension leads to the development of a symbolic image, establishing a new balance between our inner and outer world. This regulation requires that we develop a conscious relationship with our inner world, a process requiring us to meditate on the fantasies, dream images, and synchronicities in life. It is a path that requires us to honor both the nonrational and the rational in our lives.
Some resonance with NVC (the wholeness of needs), McGilchrist (balancing the right and left hemispheres). The cyclops as an image of one-sidedness:
> In order to restore balance to the planet, we need to restore balance within ourselves. Balance means becoming more complete, more whole, and able to adopt different viewpoints and approaches to solving problems. Wtihout a balanced perspective, we become one-sided and are less resilient to changes that occur in life. One-sidedness locks us into intolerance to other viewpoints, creating cynicism rather than creativity. One-sidedness leads to isolation from the world.