The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting.  Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now.  From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 … Continue reading The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

Collapse 101: Climate Denial and the Trauma Response

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

Our brain has a tremendous affinity for stability.  It desperately wants to believe in an unchanging world, even as the world changes.  In fact, our brain is so obsessed with stability that it constantly convinces itself that the world is barely in flux.  This make-believe stability appears to be fundamental to our feeling of safety, … Continue reading Collapse 101: Climate Denial and the Trauma Response