Climate Trauma - E. Ann Kaplan

Each Month Brings Scientific Findings That Demonstrate The Ways In Which Human Activities, From Resource Extraction To Carbon Emissions, Are Doing Unprecedented, Perhaps Irreparable Damage To Our World. As We Hear These Climate Change Reports And Their Predictions For The Future Of Earth, Many Of Us Feel A Sickening Sense Of Dj Vu, As Though We Have Already Seen The Sad Outcome To This Story. Drawing From Recent Scholarship That Analyzes Climate Change As A Form Of Slow Violence That Humans Are Inflicting On The Environment, Climate Trauma Theorizes That Such Violence Is Accompanied By Its Own Psychological Condition, What Its Author Terms Pretraumatic Stress Disorder.