Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe's new book "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis" gets to the heart of what’s keeping the policies and systems we need to achieve a just and sustainable future from coming into place.
"We see patients coming in, and it’s up to us to serve them. We recognize our status as a safe-haven region for reproductive health care. We’re intent on protecting that for our patients locally and for those beyond our borders as well."
"When women are centered, everybody does better. … When you help women and especially, multiply marginalized women, the ripple effects of that help everyone. And if we want to build the kind of society that we want, that’s the path forward."
"If you’re working on a beekeeping club, what you’re doing is amazing and incredible. You are being a part of educating the next generation going into the workforce that’s going to better understand the important role that pollinators are playing in our ecosystem and economy."
Where women on the front lines of the crisis are already showing us the way forward to a more just and equitable system, we need to listen and follow their lead.
Every day, I think of something else I wish I had told someone in person. Because it doesn’t feel the same to share feelings from “I can’t describe how much I miss you” to “you mean the world to me” through a screen. The weight of the words we lock inside ourselves crashes down on us hardest when we feel like we no longer have the means to express them.
The university’s horrific incompetence and lack of consideration for its rapid eviction of students is symptomatic of an institutional problem: Harvard is not treating its students with the full humanity each one of us deserves.
As Harvard’s administration and students take lessons from the University’s history, they simultaneously set new precedents for future activism on campus, shaping future generations of student protest.
Harvard has deliberately kept its students and the greater university community in the dark by obscuring the processes behind its investment and shareholder decision-making — obscuring, even, how the members of the committees that make such decisions are selected. Without any meaningful answers from the administration, these practices suggest a concerted effort to evade public accountability.
