Author(s): Stephen Harrod Buhner

SUSTAINABLE LIVING

The news is not good and there is not a one of us who does not know it. Planetary ecosystems are failing at ever increasing rates, Earth climate is in terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global warming is getting worse. As it does, increasing numbers of us are suffering the grief that comes with such ecological loss and the anxiety that comes from destabilizing ecosystems. As a species we are entering a time of great difficulty and deep mourning. As environmentalist and geographer Lesley Head has said, "Grief will be our companion on this journey - it is not something we can deal with and move on." It will be with us for a long time to come. In this book, Stephen Harrod Buhner delves deeply into the emotional, spiritual, and psychological impacts of such extreme ecological loss and uncertainty - and what is needed to come to terms with them. It is filled with insights and learnings hard won from a half century of ecological activism and internal exploration. It is the kind of knowledge we will need as the coming years unfold, reliable guide posts for traveling the road of ashes and loss, for our species now faces the difficult challenge of coping with something which has not happened since we emerged on this planet: a complete and total climate shift from one form into another. We are losing the stable climate which allowed our world civilization to emerge and with that loss will come increasingly powerful demands for our species to adapt ... not just out there in the physical world but also here in the secret chambers of our own hearts. Book jacket.