From Wired.com comes a brilliant discussion of the potential effects of global warming on our psyches. According to one man’s research, this change is already happening in the minds of many Australians and could set the tone for the coming decades of climate change:
Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds
Albrecht believes that this is a new type of sadness. People are feeling displaced. They’re suffering symptoms eerily similar to those of indigenous populations that are forcibly removed from their traditional homelands. But nobody is being relocated; they haven’t moved anywhere. It’s just that the familiar markers of their area, the physical and sensory signals that define home, are vanishing. Their environment is moving away from them, and they miss it terribly.
