Fostering Deeper Security - Climate Leadership for a New Era

Summary

A plea to stop treating climate politics as technical, now that it’s “psychological, relational, and existential.” Unacknowledged grief and fear, Bernice Lee and Theo Mitchell argue, “harden into political liabilities” that populism exploits. So we’re encouraged to ask “what emotional and cultural conditions will allow those policies to take root”, and to rebuild security on “trust, belonging, and reciprocity”.

Rationale

Its redefinition of security speaks to our worry that threat framing can feed a disposition towards borders and control. We’d put less faith in leadership to carry the change.