2015 States of Emergency: Trauma and Climate Change
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/eco.2015.0024

This theoretical paper briefly summarizes some of the current literature on trauma with a particular focus on dissociative processes and trauma's effects on the brain. These developing theories are described as they may relate to working with climate change on individual and collective levels, pointing toward the importance of a cogent understanding of trauma within the context of the climate change discussion

2022 Scorched Earth: Discourses of Multiplanetarity, Climate Change, and Martian Terraforming in Finch and Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362245546_Scorched_Earth_Discourses_of_Multiplanetarity_Climate_Change_and_Martian_Terraforming_in_Finch_and_Once_Upon_a_Time_I_Lived_on_Mars

This contribution discusses the current surge of Mars colonization narratives both in science and culture, and the ways these narratives are received and circulated in current ecocritical debates on a multiplanetary future of humanity. This analysis in this contribution takes its cue from the representation of the California wildfires of 2020 as an anthropogenic spectacle that is foreboding of a post-apocalyptic future in which Earth becomes Mars-like, and discusses how this discourse is reproduced in the Hollywood movie Finch and Kate Greene’s popular science memoir Once Upon A Time I Lived on Mars. As texts of quasi-science communication, they produce a contact zone between Earth/Mars which serves to legitimize technoliberal fantasies of terraforming Mars into Earth as a solution to climate change. With all paths to all possible futures of human habitation – utopian or dystopian – allegedly leading right through the Red Planet, there is an urgency to critically engage with the idea of planetarity being overwritten by a discourse of multiplanetarity that veils the continuity of extractivist capitalism/colonialism in a narrative of futurity and progress.

2020 Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet: A Christian Response to Climate Change
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Burning-Planet-David-Bradford/dp/1725282127

Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet draws on scientific research in developing religious perspectives on anthropogenic climate change. Its four chapters are entitled Tolling Bells, Burning Planet, Eschatology in the Anthropocene, and The Downward Passage. Tolling Bells introduces the topic of climate change and several of its emotional and biblical implications. Burning Planet provides an overview of the science of climate change and surveys the effects of global warming on human life later this century. The essays in Eschatology in the Anthropocene develop theological interpretations of climate change and examine its moral, spiritual, social, and psychological dimensions. The Downward Passage focuses on Christ's descent, the harrowing of hell, understood as a point of doctrine and an exemplary image of forthcoming challenges as we advance more deeply into the Anthropocene. A spiritual path suited to the Anthropocene is outlined. Its watchword is penthos, a traditional practice with sufficient power to convey a person through the grief and mourning that represent a true grasp of our having forced the earth into a new geological epoch.

2020 Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Terrapsychological-Inquiry-Craig-Chalquist/dp/0367859211/?tag=qrsx7-20

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a qualitative research methodology seeking a form of inquiry that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. Terrapsychology is a theory and practice approach that studies, from the standpoint of lived experience, how the world gets into the heart. Oceans and skies, trees and hills, rivers and soils, and even built things like houses, cities, ports, and planes: How do they show up for us inwardly? How do our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect what happens in the world?

Terrapsychological Inquiry evolved over a decade of experimentation by graduate students, instructors, workshop leaders and presenters, and other embodied creatives to offer a truly Earth-honoring mode of story-based qualitative inquiry, one that changes all involved from passive spectators of the doings of the world into active, sensitive participants. Learn how to use this methodology of reenchantment in a variety of settings inside and outside academia, and by doing so reenter an animate world.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this introduction to a new research methodology will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, ecotherapy, and environment and sustainability studies more generally.

2016 Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
https://www.amazon.com/Ecotherapy-Research-Practice-Martin-Jordan/dp/1137486872/

In this thought-provoking book, Jordan and Hinds provide a comprehensive exploration of this emerging area of practice. Divided into three parts, the book offers a unique examination of a range of theoretical perspectives, unpacks the latest research and provides a wealth of illuminating practice examples, with a number of chapters dedicated to authors' own first-hand experiences of the positive psychological effects of having contact with nature.

Whilst the idea of using nature to improve mental and emotional wellbeing has existed for many years, growing levels of interest in holistic, reciprocal relationships with nature have led to the development of ecotherapy as an explicit field of research. This is the much needed academically rigorous, yet engaging, introduction for counselling and psychotherapy students new to the subject as well as experienced professionals wanting to expand their understanding of this fast paced area of study and practice.

Earth Emotions by Glenn A. Albrecht | Paperback | Cornell University Press
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715228/earth-emotions/

As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.

Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.

With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.

Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Academic and Societal Implications - Octavio A. Chon Torres - Knihy Google
https://books.google.cz/books/about/Extraterrestrial_Intelligence.html?id=3Y6_zgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

What are the implications for human society, and for our institutions of higher learning, of the discovery of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on and around Earth? This book explores this timely question from a multidisciplinary perspective. It considers scientific, philosophical, theological, and interdisciplinary ways of thinking about the question, and it represents all viewpoints on how likely it is that an ETI is already operating here on Earth. The bookâ (TM)s contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines in their formal training and later vocations, and, upon reflection on the bookâ (TM)s topic, they articulate a diverse range of insights into how ETI will impact humankind. It is safe to say that any contact or communication with ETI will not merely be a game changer for human society, but will also be a paradigm changer. This means that it makes sense for human beings to prepare themselves now for this important transition

Frontiers | Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2021.738154/full

There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is currently a lack of research about the array of various climate emotions. There is also a need for more integration with general research about emotions. This article conducts a preliminary exploration of the taxonomy of climate emotions, based on literature reviews and philosophical discussion. The term emotion is used here in a broad sense, as is common in climate emotion research. Because of the urgency of the climate crisis and the lack of previous research, this kind of exploration is aimed to be helpful for both practical climate work and for future research which would include more systematic reviews of the topic. Research items which discuss at least five different climate emotions, based on empirical observations, are used as major sources and a table about them is provided. Climate emotions are discussed on the basis of interdisciplinary research. The article considers many aspects of the phenomena of climate anxiety and climate grief.

(PDF) Thermodynamics of the Technosphere: Rethinking Temporality and Technicity in the Age of Planetary Emergency with Heidegger and Stiegler, pre-print | Pieter Lemmens - Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/44801625/Thermodynamics_of_the_Technosphere_Rethinking_Temporality_and_Technicity_in_the_Age_of_Planetary_Emergency_with_Heidegger_and_Stiegler_pre_print

This article critically reflects on Stiegler’s re-interpretation of Heidegger’s views on the relationships between existential temporality, the understanding of being and technology within the context of the latter’s notion of enframing, reconceptualized as an explicitly planetary phenomenon: the technosphere. Stiegler replaces Heidegger’s ontological conception with an organological one, arguing that the latter fails to understand these phenomena from the crucial perspective of thermodynamics, i.e., of the question of entropy and negentropy, which has never been addressed by Heidegger. What I particularly aim to show is that Stiegler’s organological re-intepretation of enframing as the technosphere and of existential temporality in terms of ‘quasi-causality’ (per Deleuze) may profit from being put in the broader, geothermodynamic context of Earth System Science, and considered from the perspective of Schneider & Sagan’s ‘gradient theory’, as being driven by what may be called the planetary ‘thermodynamic imperative’ with Jeffrey Wicken.

kryptokonstituce, hyperderm

(PDF) Web 3.0 and The Web of Life. Attuning the Noosphere with (the Intelligences of) the Biosphere in the Context of the Anthropocene | Pieter Lemmens - Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/39613550/Web_3_0_and_The_Web_of_Life_Attuning_the_Noosphere_with_the_Intelligences_of_the_Biosphere_in_the_Context_of_the_Anthropocene

This article reflects on the future of the noosphere and the technosphere, i.e., the two inextricably connected anthropospheres
that have been added to the Earth’s biosphere and have become the defining geospheres of the Earth in what has been called the Anthropocene or the epoch of decisive human impact on the Earth system. Engaging with the work of Bernard Stiegler, Peter Sloterdijk, Timothy Morton, and David Abram among others, this paper argues for the need to attune the future techno-noosphere concretized at the moment with the emergence of Web 3.0, artificial intelligence, big data, and the so-called Internet of Things -- with the inherent intelligences and operativity of not only the biosphere or the ‘web of life’ but also the ethnosphere, so as to create a homeotic, i.e., a co-operative and co-constructive techno-noosphere that allows for genuine ecological coexistence on a future planet that will depend on the way it will be taken care of — or not — by humans who are themselves utterly dependent on the many non-human forces and residents of the planet

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