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Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup Meeting
"Climate Change and Mental Health"
October 18, 2016
Nothing Wrong with Misery: The Climate Challenge Through a Transformational Lens
SUSANNE C. MOSER, PH.D.
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Overview
• What are we facing?
• How do we respond?
• How do we foster hope?
Source: http://cloudsmartz.com/disaster recovery care for employees/
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The Apocalypse…
Richard Tol at IPCC AR5 release: “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”
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When his ship first came to Australia,
Cook wrote, the natives
continued fishing, without looking up.
Unable, it seems, to fear what was too large to be comprehended.
Global Warming
Jane Hirshfield After (2006)
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GHG Emission Pathways 2000-2100: All ARS Scenarios .-. 140 ... >, --C" - 90:h percentile ~ .... 120 0 u .... ~ 100 '-'
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No Time To Lose 450 ppm CO2eq by 2100: By 2050: 40-70% emission
reduction globally
By 2100: near 0 (or below)
Source: IPCC 2014
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How Close Are We to Staying “Safe”?
Source: http://climateactiontracker.org/; status October 2016
http://climateactiontracker.org/
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Between the Impossible and the
Unthinkable
“That is where we are: Stuck between the impossible and the unthinkable.
David Roberts, Ted talk (2012)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznsPkJy2x8
And so for the rest of your life,
your job is to make the impossible possible.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznsPkJy2x8
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Between the Impossible and the
Unthinkable
Photo: Americares.org
Loss of health
Loss of life
Loss of home
Loss of livelihood
Loss of social connection
Loss of sense of security
Loss of well-being
Loss of trust in future
Loss of identity
Loss of hope
Loss of places/sense of place
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What Are We Facing?
Untold suffering
Countless endings
Environmental
Socioeconomic
Psycho cultural
Wide range of psychological responses – entirely understandable
Appropriate and inappropriate expressions of responses
Ill-equipped support systems to assist and navigate the coming transformation
Photos (t b): sacredactivations.com; Joel Sternfield, Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Williams, 2008, EOS Life Work
The Human Geography of
Transformation
Adapted from Bridges (2004)
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Truthtelling, accepting,
confronting
Validating, framing
Approaches to Mental Health
“Problems” Common Practice Needed Practice
Normalizing
Mapping, supporting
Empowering
Ignoring,
reacting
Pathologizing
Individualizing
“Treating”
Patronizing
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Participating in positive
disintegration
Telling and facing the
truth
Bearing the suffering
Choosing life/grounded
hope
Reincorporation
Commitment
Integrity
Courage and failure
tolerance
Living into the new roles
and responsibilities
Remembering
Fostering Psychological Skills for a
Transformation
Severance
The courage to
transcend cultural norms
Saying yes to change
Failure consciousness
Death consciousness
Being with deep
emotions
Threshold
Photo: http://s2.thingpic.com Reflexivity and asking
the big questions
Source: Berzonsky (2016)
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Supporting the Transformation with
Radical Acts of Courage
"To be truly radical is to make
hope possible, rather than
despair convincing."
- Raymond Williams
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Varieties of Hope
Passive Optimism
“Pollyanna Hope”
Active Optimism “Heroic Hope”
Passive Skepticism
“Stoic Hope”
Active Skepticism “Grounded
Hope”
Active Transform’n
“Radical Hope”
Photo: spectrum of the sky (all4desktop.com; Classification: Per Espen Stoknes (2015) & Jonathan Lear (2006)
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1. Clear-eyed diagnosis: Where are we at?
2. Vision of a worthwhile outcome: What is achievable?
3. Feasible path: How can we get from here to there?
4. Strategy for setbacks and interim goals: What to do when
the going gets tough?
5. Meaningful role for me: What can I do?
6. Call on my highest self: Who do I most want to be?
7. Doing it together: What will you (others) do?
Photo:villageofhopeuganda.com
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Thank you!
Susi Moser, Ph.D.
Email: promundi [at] susannemoser.com
Web: www.susannemoser.com
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