'What if there just is no solution?' How we are all in denial about the climate crisis

In his new book, Ted DeLaney suggests there is no rosy roadmap for a way forward - but there are things we can doYou are in denial about the climate crisis. We all are, argues American scholar, Tad DeLay. Right-wing climate deniers are not the only ones with a problem, he says when we speak in early June after the release of his book, Future of Denial. For denial doesn't only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues - it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through "carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling". And in this, far more of us are implicated.In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it - using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial. Continue reading...