ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the development of ecological consciousness and the importance of stimulating and supporting this consciousness within a collective context. Particular attention is given to the Indigenous cultures and their accumulated wisdom and practices grounded in identification and relationship with the natural world, as well as the losses and impacts that climate crisis is having on their communities, and their activist responses to this. Following on from this is a discussion of young people, their relationship to the natural world, the psychological impacts of climate crisis on them and their growing activism. The chapter concludes by emphasising the process of relating personal consciousness to ecosystemic understandings and collective action, with a number of examples of cultural projects and social movements that do this.
