CONTENTS
1 Cover
7 Introduction: What Next, Now That the Limits Have Been Breached? References
8 Part I The Predicament 1 What Climate Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our Predicament Where we are after 125 years of climate science The root of denial may be found in the workings of climate science A case for the virtue of scientific ignorance Two possible new approaches for survival and compassion References 2 Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy Preamble Introduction Locating this study within academia Our non-linear world Looking ahead Apocalypse uncertain Systems of denial Framing after denial The deep adaptation agenda Research futures in the face of climate tragedy Conclusions References 3 Reasons for Anticipating Societal Collapse Introduction What do we do with this? References
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Part II Shifts in Being
4 Climate Psychology and its Relevance to Deep Adaptation
Why climate psychology?
Shiva – seeing what we need to see from inside a sick culture
Formation
The devil has the best tunes
Denial
Forms of denial
Denialism
Disavowal
A nexus of denial
The psychotherapy profession – another case study?
References
5 Deeper Implications of Societal Collapse: Co-liberation from the Ideology of E-s-c-a-p-e
Entitlement in E-s-c-a-p-e ideology
Surety in e-S-c-a-p-e ideology
Control in e-s-C-a-p-e ideology
Autonomy in e-s-c-A-p-e ideology
Progress in e-s-c-a-P-e ideology
Exceptionalism in e-s-c-a-p-E ideology
Habits of e-s-c-a-p-e in the climate change field
The economic reproduction of e-s-c-a-p-e
Moving beyond e-s-c-a-p-e to c-o-s-m-o-s
Considerations for co-liberation from destructive ideology
References
6 Unconscious Addictions: Mapping Common Responses to Climate Change and Potential Climate Collapse
Introduction
Climate collapse denial
The house of modernity and its four constitutive denials
Responses to the possibility of climate collapse
The rehab
References
7 Facilitating Deep Adaptation: Enabling More Loving Conversations about Our Predicament
The importance of facilitating groups in the face of collapse
Understanding ‘othering’ and its remedy with facilitation
Aspects of facilitating deep adaptation
Containment
Denial and radical uncertainty
Grief
Examples of deep adaptation modalities and facilitated processes