Abstract
Humans have the innate capacity to live sustainably. However, within the current industrial culture this capacity is being disabled. This chapter illuminates some problematic implications of the industrial world's responses to sustainability by highlighting the broader impacts of these responses personally, socially and environmentally and, in doing so, proposes some of the psychosocial root causes of unsustainability inherent in current ways of living. Lastly, this chapter uncovers pathways for developing and integrating sustaining ways of living by exploring conditions that enable critical self-reflection, supportive relationships and ongoing personal healing.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Social Ecology: Applying Ecological Understandings to Our Lives and Our Planet |
| Editors | David Wright, Catherine E. Camden-Pratt, Stuart B. Hill |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Hawthorn Press |
| Pages | 99-110 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781907359118 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |