ABSTRACT
We are in a planetary pyramid scheme, getting into an ecological debt from which there can be no bail outs. We live on a finite planet with an economic system predicated on unending growth. Scientists estimate human demand already exceeded the biosphere’s regenerative capacity in the 1980s (Wackernagel et al., 2002, p. 926), yet somehow this just doesn’t hit home, our behaviour doesn’t match our knowledge. Why? I draw on ideas from my recent book (Dodds, 2011) to explore the possibility of a nonlinear ecopsychoanalysis with which to respond to a climate at the edge of chaos.
