Climate change is not a scientific problem waiting for a technical solution. It’s an urgent, frightening, systemic quandary involving complex planetary processes, human culture and politics, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

The following quotations, from a variety of sources, portray in differing ways the essential but often unconscious bond between human and other life forms.

Co-founder of Climate Psychology Alliance, Adrian Tait, has recently contributed a chapter to a new book edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read called Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos, in which he explores the relevance climate psychology has to Deep Adaptation. The following is a piece that Adrian has written based on that chapter:

Perhaps, to wake up to the danger of climate change, we must also wake up to something in ourselves…