This book calls on all sectors to expand their climate programs beyond emission reductions and physical adaption, to focus on assisting individuals and groups to use the adversities caused by
climate change to learn, grow and flourish. Failure to focus on helping people deal with the mental health and psychosocial aspects of climate disruption will seriously impair the safety and
health of individuals as well as the security and social wellbeing of organizations, communities and whole societies for generations to come. It will also seriously delay efforts to reduce the
impacts of climate disruption to manageable levels.
Doppelt begins by describing how natural human psychobiological reactions to climate disruption damage the psychological, emotional, and social wellbeing of individuals, organizations,
communities and whole societies. Using his own organization’s Transformational Resilience program as an example, the author describes methods and skills that may be used to build capacity
within all levels of societies to alleviate the acute traumas and toxic stresses of climate change.
Using the author’s extensive experience of advising public, private and non-profit sectors on using behavioral and systems change knowledge and tools, this book applies a new lens to the
question of how to successfully respond to climate change.
