News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our
planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in
terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global
warming is getting worse. Increasing numbers of people feel the
impact of this, feel some form of what is being called climate
grief, ecological loss, or sometimes even solastalgia. Our species
is entering a time of difficult and deep mourning. As
environmentalist Leslie 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. Stephen Harrod Buhner
takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what
is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques
Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others
have found. It's where one becomes an engaged witness, alive to the
losses that are occurring and the grief that is felt but is not
overcome by them. Then he travels into and through the common
feelings of guilt and shame (feelings that are put on so many but
in actuality belong to very few) that come from ecological
devastation. From there Stephen moves deep into what occurs when
those we love die, when the planetary landscapes, forests, fields
and rivers that are engraved into our deepest selves are lost, when
we are forced to travel into the territory of death and loss and
deep grief ourselves. Throughout it, Stephen draws on his studies
with Elizabeth Kubler Ross and others who worked with the dying,
his years as a psychotherapist, extensive work with the chronically
ill, and deep immersion in and relationship with plants, wild
ecosystems, and this living planet that is our home. At journey's
end what arises is not the optimism of false hope (as Greta
Thunberg calls it) but a deeper and more realistic hope, one that
is intimately entangled with gravitas and the journey through loss.
It's born from the heart's integration of grief and a deep faith in
the green world, in this planet from which we have emerged, and in
the new life that comes with every spring. Stephen's book is
written with the exquisite prose style, intimacy, depth of insight,
and engaged storytelling for which he is known. No one who reads it
will remain unmoved or ever again feel as if they are alone in the
grief they feel for what is happening to our home.
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