Aren’t ecology and environmentalism already addressing the crisis?
They don’t go far enough. In fact they perpetuate the very enchantment with technology and quick fixes that put us at odds with the planet to begin with. We can’t fix something until we understand our dysfunctional relationship with it. Therapists routinely ask new clients, “What things have you tried?” because they know that solutions without insight make things worse. Our dealings with the environment need the same kind of assessment. Trying to fix things is a defense against understanding in depth our relationship to them. If we understood ourselves and what we were doing better, and why we were doing it, there wouldn’t be an environmental crisis.
