Summary

As awareness of ecological decline grows and feeds collective grief and anxiety about the future, we continue to study, live, and work in contexts that are irreconcilable with adaptation imperatives. 

​How do researchers and working professionals understand the gap between their own subjective hopes and fears about ecological decline and the institutional constraints in which they work and live? How do they make decisions and account for their biases under these conditions? 
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By facing our defenses -- our painful truths; collective denial -- and then processing grief, loss, and trauma, we might be able to develop sustained, emotionally-informed action to reduce harm and social conflict going forward.  
This site is not formally associated with or organization or institution and it has no political affiliation; its work is supported by a community of academics and practitioners in the Post Carbon Institute, the Post Growth Institute, the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, and Canadian Mennonite University. 

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