ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to apply ideas from critical psychology to a much bigger issue, that of climate change. It reviews consequences of climate change for conceptions of social development, adaptation and behaviour. The chapter explains critical ideas to non-psychologists, and brings concepts from methodological and conceptual debates that emerged during the crisis in psychology. The impact of climate change on cultural development has highlighted the diverse ways that social systems, and the place of different categories of individual within them, are affected. Dominant conceptions of development that are derived from the West still underpin many international policy initiatives. Critical interventions that have attempted to sidestep dominant metaphors of development in order to address policy practices have included research drawing on narrative analysis. The globalization of Western psychology then becomes part of the equation in how to develop policy concerning a global problem.
