Grief and Climate Change
An online friend of mine, Toni Stafford, had an inspiring blog a few days ago: Kubler-Ross’ 5 stages of grief applied to Climate Change. I had never thought about it in these terms, but there is a lot of value in it!
It has long been my position that what is commonly referred to as resistance to change can be better understood as one of the first four stages of grief. In my own personal history I have experienced all five stages in relation to global climate change. And while I’ll describe that in order, I want to emphasize that my progression through the stages has been far from linear. Before reaching acceptance I swirled and spiraled around and through the first four phases a number of times.