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At its meeting in Boston in July 2015, the International Psychoanalytical Association issued a “Declaration Addressing Global Change” (Kress, Clarkson, Moss, and Zeavin, 2015). The declaration resolved:
That the IPA needs to increase the widespread consciousness of the precarious state of the natural world due to the activities of humans;
That the IPA should promote psychoanalytical research devoted to understanding human interactions with the natural world;
That the IPA, as an immediate concrete action, should divest any financial investments in the fossil fuel industry and increase our support of energy efficient technologies as a symbol of our commitment to solve the environmental crisis.
Until that address, a relative silence about climate change had persisted in the analytic community, particularly in the U.S. Most climatologists and informed policy makers agree that catastrophic climate change is the greatest existential threat facing the human species, an unavoidable reality the likes of which humans have never had to contemplate, although the potential global annihilation that nuclear weapons pose follows closely behind. Anticipated to worsen exponentially in the