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This chapter begins with the problem of ‘climate anxiety’, a psychological and cultural response to collapsing ecological systems marked by depression, trauma and helplessness. While a reasonable response to an existential threat, climate anxiety impedes our capacity to act where it leads to apathy,...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-598272022-12-06T03:07:31Z Chapter 9 Climate anxiety, fatalism and the capacity to act Taylor, Dan Autonomy, philospohy, politics, language, Pharmacology, climate bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPF Political ideologies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFJ Social discrimination & inequality This chapter begins with the problem of ‘climate anxiety’, a psychological and cultural response to collapsing ecological systems marked by depression, trauma and helplessness. While a reasonable response to an existential threat, climate anxiety impedes our capacity to act where it leads to apathy, indecision or fatalism. The paper considers Jem Bendell’s argument that accepting and ‘grieving’ for inevitable civilisational collapse is a precondition to clear-sighted adaptation. This response is insufficient for the problem of motivation necessary for the capacity to act. It considers Martha Nussbaum’s 2018 claim that fear hinders reciprocity, amplifies infantile narcissism and endangers democracy. While salient, developing a countervailing ‘capacity for concern’ requires not merely a therapeutic relationship or the uncritical restitution of faltering liberal public institutions. Via Spinoza, an effective capacity to act against fear is conceived as interrelational and affective, founded on cooperation, friendship and the cultivation of causal knowledge. A common autonomy, one not merely of individual choice or identitarian self-expression. 2022-12-05T13:42:50Z 2022-12-05T13:42:50Z 2023 chapter 9781032364070 9781032364094 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59827 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003331780_10.4324_9781003331780-13.pdf Taylor & Francis New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy Routledge 10.4324/ 9781003331780-13 10.4324/ 9781003331780-13 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 8122fc20-b72b-438a-b044-6687c3571f06 46165047-dd95-4cd7-ab7c-b4a4ecf21c81 9781032364070 9781032364094 Routledge 16 Open University OU open access
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