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Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction

With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier’s point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. The rivers, forests, and creatures of the natural and material world are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another. After all, when you ask someone why they first became an environmentalist, they’re likely to point to the river they played in, the ocean they visited, the wild animals they observed, or the trees they climbed when they were a kid. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the earth. Freeing ourselves from a war mentality and seeing the bigger picture of how everything from prison reform to saving the whales can contribute to our planetary ecological health, we resist reflexive postures of solution and blame and reach toward the deep place where commitment lives.

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Publisher: North Atlantic Books (September 18, 2018)
Publication Date: September 18, 2018
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Richard Yates

An interesting stance, but ultimately naive

October 27, 2018

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The first portion does a reasonable job of describing the current state of climate change and the various positions that are taken regarding it. The author clearly understands that it is real, human-driven, and dangerous. And his idea that the range of opinions about it all make similar false assumptions rings true. I think he is correct that these approaches narrowly focus on specific causes and do not appreciate our underlying detachment from the natural world as the real source of the problem. So far, so good.

But then his solution is that we must somehow regain this involvement with the natural world as a global movement of Interbeing that has everyone realign all of their priorities away from power, growth, competition and toward those valuing the health of the ecosystem as a whole. Then we will make good decisions. To his credit he seems to understand that this involves huge changes to most people's lives.

But, the book ultimately is utterly naive in imagining that this can actually happen given the immediacy of the environmental crisis, the current geopolitical state of the world, the historical evidence of human tribalism, and the terribly short time span in which things must change.

While the book wants to present a hopeful and positive attitude and solution, it actually further proves the inevitability and severity of the coming disaster.

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Ben Roberts

A brilliant and provocative reframing of the Climate Crisis

October 9, 2018

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This is an excellent addition to Eisenstein's radical and thought provoking body of work on the collapse of our current systems, which he sees as based on the "Story of Separation," and of the transition to a new (and also ancient) paradigms based on a "Story of Interbeing." This is must reading for anyone who cares about the climate, especially those who are concerned with policy and strategy.

This is also a fascinating read for anyone who is interested in better ways to engage "climate deniers." Eisenstein offers a perspective that transcends arguments about climate science, and even the focus on warming and greenhouse gas emissions as the primary issue to be grappled with. He contends that our love for Life in all its forms is the only power that can carry us towards a future worth living into. This spiritual stance takes us out of the realm of cost benefit analysis and debates regarding the value of one kind of activism or another. At the same time, it leads us to precisely the kinds of regenerative work that more traditional climate activists agree are essential, such as an end to deforestation and wetlands destruction, the rebuilding of soils so that they sequester carbon, etc.

Whether one agrees with Eisenstein's critique of the mainstream's focus on technological and greenhouse gas emissions focused solutions to the climate crisis or not, I think it is essential that we answer his challenges. Otherwise, we run a terrible risk of exacerbating many of the worst aspects of our current system, such as the use of centralized and linear "command and control" strategies that are incapable of grappling with deeply complex, nonlinear systems dynamics. The unintended consequences of such an effort could be every bit as dire as the global warming threat we seek to combat. Indeed, Eisenstein suggests that the very notion that "we" (the climate saviors) are in a battle against "them" (the deniers, the polluters, the conspiracy theorists, the con-men profiting off of ecocide) embeds us in the Story of Separation. Without a fundamental grounding in love and compassion, even for our "opponents," he suggests that we are doomed to fail. If, on the other hand, we change the Story, seeing that the way we treat anyone and anything affects everything else, Eisenstein offers us hope that what now seems unlikely or even impossible might suddenly become natural and ubiquitous.

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L. Brooke Stabler

Brilliantly researched and articulated, this is the new story we all need to hear.

October 9, 2018

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Climate- A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein is, oddly enough, a love story. His allegorical introduction leaves no doubt about that. But it’s not a silly or romantic love story, and no matter how irrational love (Eisenstein tells us so), the case he presents for shifting the attention of our focus away from carbon emissions and toward the earth as the living, perhaps even sentient being that it is, is compelling.

A more holistic approach.

Most ecologists recognize the soundness of the arguments presented, and Eisenstein has not been remiss with his citations, nor in his explanations for why the focus has been and continues to be on carbon. But ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole are very complex systems and the body of the earth responds in ways we can’t always predict.

Carbon is much too limited a focus, one simply cannot discuss atmospheric carbon without thinking about the water cycle, the two are inexorably linked, nor can one address issues with the “non-living”, abiotic environment (i.e. atmosphere, sea, etc.) without recognizing interaction with, and dependence on, the biota. The two are interdependent.

Just like humans and environment, biotic and abiotic.

Eisenstein explains the science clearly, and “correctly”, at least as correctly as “science” understands it. His uncertainty and exhaustive review of many perspectives is refreshing. He suggests that climate is not our most dire problem; the relationship we have with the earth, and with each other, is.

That’s where the love story comes in.

Earth as thing, as inanimate, cannot be killed. It can be looked upon as a mass of resources, something for our use, without needs of its own, non-responsive. Clearly, the earth is responding. Climate change is one of many responses.

Eisenstein asks us to listen, to turn off the noise, to look at the beauty, to feel the grief, and to listen. The earth is trying to tell us something.

Counting carbons is not enough.

For anyone concerned about climate, environment, earth, and humanity, I highly recommend this book.

L. Brooke Stabler, Ph.D.

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