There is a concept called “moral injury,” which provides a good sense for understanding the unrest we feel in America today. Moral injury is often used with regard to the mental health of military veterans who have witnessed or perpetrated an act in combat that transgressed their deeply held moralContinue Reading
Most science, as it is often practiced today, tries to control nature. But for all science’s success, the world is becoming too toxic, human violence remains undiminished, and we are less content than most plants and animals. We may be living longer, but hardly better. This is what comes of ourContinue Reading
Science provides a fairly successful way of “listening” to ecosystems. After all, most creatures in the diminishing wilderness, just like a sad pet or an abused child, don’t really know that something is not right — they just grow up accepting it as normal. They can’t, or they won’t dare,Continue Reading