num_pages: 344
description: Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can 'rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements.While this book's subject is grim its tone is reflective ironic light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon and full of examples from history culture literature poetry everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.
language: None
title: Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic