I am interviewed weekly about my take on what is unfolding with climate, environment and now COVID intersections. And over and over, I am asked binary questions. And I say the same thing. THREAD
1/ We have to blow them up. We have to refute the tendency to go binary. We have to recognize binary as itself a defense mechanism and strategy for avoiding the terror of ambiguity, the risk of not acting, the threat of death and demise.
2/ I tell people that when we hear terms framed in binaries - individual/society or system change is a big popular one now, hope/despair, reform or revolution, it’s a big red flag we are in the terrain of unconscious defense mechanisms. It’s not leading us to wisdom.
3/ But we can be curious and interrogate and hold each other accountable for facing the messier and nuanced, uncertain realities as we chart a path together forward.
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