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Macy/Esbjörn-Hargens & Zimmerman Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Macy/Esbjörn-Hargens & Zimmerman Mind Map
Macy, "Working Through Environmental Despair," from Ecopsychology (1995)
Loss of certainty in the future, sense of sorrow.
We tend to repress the pain associated with environmental despair
Disbelief, denial, double life
Disbelief: Difficulty with grasping the dangers surrounding us
Denial: Dismissing the notion that things are as bas as they really are
Double life: We tend to just keep living as though nothing has changed, even though things have changed
The Fears That Hold Us Captive
Fear of Pain
Pain as dysfunction
Fear of Appearing Morbid
Anguish and despair seen as failure to maintain stamina or competence
Fear of Appearing Stupid
Value of competence in our society
Fear of Guilt
"To acknowledge distress for our world opens us also to a sense of guilt"
Fear of Causing Distress
Compassion for others prevents us from spreading distressing news
Fear of Provoking Disaster
"There is also the superstition that negative thoughts are self-fulfilling"
Fear of Appearing Unpatriotic
Underlying love of country preventing healthy conversation
Fear of Religious Doubt
Pressure to trust in faith through stressful situations
Fear of Appearing Too Emotional
Don't want to seem like we are prey to our emotions
Fear of Feeling Powerless
"I don't think about that, because there is nothing I can do about it."
Breaking through despair and feelings of empowerment
Feelings of pain for our world are natural and healthy
Pain is morbid only if denied
Information alone is not enough
Unblocking repressed feelings releases energy and clears the mind
Unblocking our pain for the world reconnects us with the larger web of life
Positive Disintegration
"To experience pain as we register what is happening to our world is a measure of our evolution as open systems"
An Overview of Integral Ecology
A Comprehensive Approach to Today’s Complex Planetary Issues
High diversity on views of ecology and environment in today's society
Integral ecology provides a framework
who is perceiving nature
how the perceiver uses different methods, techniques, and practices to disclose nature
what is perceived as nature
"a comprehensive framework for characterizing ecological dynamics and resolving environmental problems."
The four quadrants
Collective
Individual
Interior
Exterior
Terrain of experience
"Our direct experience of ourselves, other people, and the natural world plays an important role in how we approach the environment"
Terrain of behaviors
"Toxic chemicals can cause (or trigger) various deleterious effects in the behavior and structure of individual cells, organs, and organisms"
Terrain of Systems
Organisms are part of their ecosystem , defined as "interrelated and interdependent organic communities and their physical environments"
Terrain of culture
"...integral ecologists must examine cultural factors, namely how ideologies, worldviews, religious systems, and values encourage, discourage, or are neutral with regards to toxic emissions"
Conclusion
Environmental issues today are extremely complex
Anything less than an integral approach will deliver only temporary solutions or ineffective results
An ecology of perspectives is needed, combination of insights
and approaches and methods from the 200 perspectives of the natural world