Environmental Decline, Loss, and Biophilia
In exploring our personal sense of loss as a response to environmental decline, this article outlines several dimensions of this experience (guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, environmental disequilibrium, environmental trauma, cosmological loneliness), and traces promising healing responses in t...
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doaj-70207bd1679b4e66bf217b3c738112a02020-11-25T03:01:38ZengUniversity of WindsorCritical Social Work1543-93722019-05-0111310.22329/csw.v11i3.5832Environmental Decline, Loss, and BiophiliaMishka Lysack0Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada In exploring our personal sense of loss as a response to environmental decline, this article outlines several dimensions of this experience (guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, environmental disequilibrium, environmental trauma, cosmological loneliness), and traces promising healing responses in the health professions and ecosocial work. Focusing on a public educational empowerment model, the article proposes E. O. Wilson’s notion of “biophilia” – an innate attraction to life and to affiliate with living things - as a basis for a model of practice. This educational approach uses biophilia and ecological narratives as a foundation for deepening personal motivation for sustained action in environmental citizenship. https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5832 |
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In exploring our personal sense of loss as a response to environmental decline, this article outlines several dimensions of this experience (guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, environmental disequilibrium, environmental trauma, cosmological loneliness), and traces promising healing responses in the health professions and ecosocial work. Focusing on a public educational empowerment model, the article proposes E. O. Wilson’s notion of “biophilia” – an innate attraction to life and to affiliate with living things - as a basis for a model of practice. This educational approach uses biophilia and ecological narratives as a foundation for deepening personal motivation for sustained action in environmental citizenship.
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