ABSTRACT
There can be little hope of building adequate responses to today’s environmental challenges unless we begin, collectively, to re-examine our relationship with nature. In exploring the ways in which this relationship develops, Sally Weintrobe’s chapter echoes, from a psychoanalytical perspective, themes about which I am more familiar from a social psychological perspective: what shapes our relationship with nature, and how does this, in turn, shape our attitudes towards the despoilment of nature? That there are some strong parallels between the conclusions that Weintrobe draws and the results of empirical work in social psychology makes her chapter all the more compelling.
