Late last year, I wrote about the dominance of the tragic “Lorax narrative” in environmental reporting. Journalists Sara Peach and Keith Kloor have since examined Lorax-ness in climate-change coverage, and I’ve been collecting climate stories that draw on other archetypal narratives (suggestions welcome). The discussion has made me wonder: How would Dr. Seuss himself tackle climate […]
Month: January 2012
A general psycho-neuro scenario of anger: It begins outside you, with some sort of trigger – injustice, humiliation, betrayal, dishonor, frustration, negligence, restraint, physical threat. It moves inside, into the pre-human depths of your brain and lights up a bunch of neurons called the amygdala. The amygdala and some of its neural associates analyze the […]
