“Have a Nice Day”: Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Sally Weintrobe. New York:  Routledge, 2012,  xxiv + 256 pp., $180.00 hardcover, $62.95 paperback. Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. By Sally Weintrobe. New York:  Bloomsbury Academic, 2021,  xii + 332 pp., $120.00 hardcover, $29.95 paperback.

Fifty years ago, after hiking in the Sinai Peninsula for a month, we came upon a blackberry bush—species rubes sanctus—at the foot of the biblical Mt. Sinai. It was enclosed ceremoniously in iron fencing and stone. The wilderness guide with whom we'd been traveling explained this was in fact The Burning Bush, “The One” in which God revealed himself to Moses before giving him the Ten Commandments.

I myself had spent the better part of the spring that year pulling blackberry bushes from the yards of homes and trying to eradicate their relentless spread in my job as a landscaper. I knew from the cuts and scars on my hands that you can pull them out, poison and, yes, burn them, and they will nonetheless survive. Of course, this would be The Burning Bush.

I recall this moment while reading Sally Weintrobe's tour de force, Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. The roots she painstakingly describes are deep and intertwined and must be understood if any social movement is to make a successful ethical demand for a livable Earth. Weintrobe's profound understanding of states of mind and her expansion of psychoanalytic concepts—which she integrates with an understanding of social, economic, and ideological forces—are singular in this work. Weintrobe fuses theoretical and clinical psychoanalytic acumen in a major contribution to a theory of mind and how that theory might bear on our collective survival.

Weintrobe attempts to contain our anxiety at the prospect of climate catastrophe through her organization of the book and in her attention to

tolerance of loss and grief and the potential creation of space for hope and action. This is not a book about activism. It is not about individuals on the couch, nor about conflict and civic duties. It is not about carbon emissions and fossil fuels and the continued manic race to extract natural resources per se. Weintrobe's book is about the human, psychological side of the creation