A collective dissociationWe have already faced or become climate refugees , dealt with weather-related natural disasters , and considered the clear facts of unrelenting climate change . Imagine a prey animal laying down and hoping the predator goes away. It’s generally the body’s last resort, once the fight or flight response has burned out. If we don’t acknowledge that climate change exists (as some federal politicians failed to do this year), that’s true dissociation. And that the people who are already suffering the worst effects of climate chaos were not the ones causing it.

Source: CBC News November 19, 2021 09:18 UTC