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Chapter 79
Ecological Emptiness
79.1 Ecological Depression
Widespread ecological depression is manifest in the clinical literature.
1
With
Apocalypse glibly described as the new-normal, the doom-scrolling pit in the stomach, the living dead, decries its past but has only the vaguest suggestion for the future.
We flock toward destruction with inventive gusto and call it logic. But any sensible concept would more carefully formulate a discerning illogic where upon disassociation and the variegated exile of mind were the elegant roots of all fertility and
originality.
Hence, the atlas of forgotten, undiscovered, and imaginary places. The precious
etymology of all misfits. A fine humor of pre-nihilistic nuances. True kindnesses
bestowed upon every plurality, as a fundamental pillar of the biosphere. This is the
latitude in evolution we have been searching for, a tailored natural selection that
suits our fits and starts. It is pragmatic. The cleansing apparatus bestowed by natural
selection upon individuals and populations for purposes of rejuvenation, health, and
perpetuation.
There is no fine-tuning these deliberations because every angstrom of delineation, iteration, and occupation is equally engrossing. Their strength is as individual
as it is uncharacteristic of a species or community. And therein is the problem.
It comprises wastelands of railroad track and barbwire fencing; of caustic
Portland cement, the steadfast hexavalent chromium; of plastic oceans and 129
degrees in Tehran, or temperatures in the sand exceeding 150 where shorebird
chicks die of heatstroke in their nests. There are no apparent margins of mercy, no
philosophy, or no exposition that can account for human lunacies adept at the
election of dictators and dismemberment, whose multiplier dilemmas crowd the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
1 See, for example, “We need to talk about ‘ecoanxiety’: Climate change is causing PTSD, anxiety,
and depression on a mass scale,” By Zoë Schlanger April 3, 2017, Quartz, https://qz.com/948909/
ecoanxiety-the-american-psychological-association-says-climate-change-is-causing-ptsd-anxiety-and-depression-on-a-mass-scale/. Accessed January 15, 2020.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. C. Tobias, J. G. Morrison, On the Nature of Ecological Paradox,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_79
Chapter 79
Ecological Emptiness
79.1 Ecological Depression
Widespread ecological depression is manifest in the clinical literature.
1
With
Apocalypse glibly described as the new-normal, the doom-scrolling pit in the stomach, the living dead, decries its past but has only the vaguest suggestion for the future.
We flock toward destruction with inventive gusto and call it logic. But any sensible concept would more carefully formulate a discerning illogic where upon disassociation and the variegated exile of mind were the elegant roots of all fertility and
originality.
Hence, the atlas of forgotten, undiscovered, and imaginary places. The precious
etymology of all misfits. A fine humor of pre-nihilistic nuances. True kindnesses
bestowed upon every plurality, as a fundamental pillar of the biosphere. This is the
latitude in evolution we have been searching for, a tailored natural selection that
suits our fits and starts. It is pragmatic. The cleansing apparatus bestowed by natural
selection upon individuals and populations for purposes of rejuvenation, health, and
perpetuation.
There is no fine-tuning these deliberations because every angstrom of delineation, iteration, and occupation is equally engrossing. Their strength is as individual
as it is uncharacteristic of a species or community. And therein is the problem.
It comprises wastelands of railroad track and barbwire fencing; of caustic
Portland cement, the steadfast hexavalent chromium; of plastic oceans and 129
degrees in Tehran, or temperatures in the sand exceeding 150 where shorebird
chicks die of heatstroke in their nests. There are no apparent margins of mercy, no
philosophy, or no exposition that can account for human lunacies adept at the
election of dictators and dismemberment, whose multiplier dilemmas crowd the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
1 See, for example, “We need to talk about ‘ecoanxiety’: Climate change is causing PTSD, anxiety,
and depression on a mass scale,” By Zoë Schlanger April 3, 2017, Quartz, https://qz.com/948909/
ecoanxiety-the-american-psychological-association-says-climate-change-is-causing-ptsd-anxiety-and-depression-on-a-mass-scale/. Accessed January 15, 2020.