Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet & shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action A climate scientist & licensed Jungian analyst Jeffrey T Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world & their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the lived experience of climate change & the feelings of fear & loss they inspire which lead us to deny the reality of our warming planet But it is not too late By evaluating our way of being Kiehl unleashes a potential human emotional understanding that can reform our behavior & help protect the Earth Kiehl dives deep into the human brain's psychological structures & human spirituality's imaginative power mining promising resources for creating a healthier connection to the environment-and one another Facing Climate Change is as concerned with repairing our social & political fractures as it is with reestablishing our ties to the world teaching us to push past partisanship & unite around the shared attributes that are key to our survival Kiehl encourages policy makers & activists to appeal to our interdependence as a global society extracting politics from the process & making decisions about our climate future that are substantial & sustaining