ABSTRACT
In this chapter I argue that engaging with climate change involves engaging with our loving, caring feelings for nature so that we are more able to be mindful and concerned about our impact on nature in our daily lives in an ongoing way. I look at the way loving nature is an ordinary and natural part of human nature, and I argue that capitalist culture, particularly in its recent neoliberal1 global phase, actively seeks to erode our loving feelings and to persuade us we are apart from, not part of, nature. It actively fosters in us a sense of entitlement to exploit nature without counting the real cost. Engaging with nature also involves engaging with politics, history and culture, so as to better understand ways in which our thoughts and feelings about nature are profoundly influenced and shaped by cultural and political forces. It involves facing facts about human nature so as better to understand how and why collectively we collude with these influences.
