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This book utilizes a psychoanalytic perspective to provide a basis of understanding the sources of resistance to evidence regarding climate change and the need for action. The main issue has been to attribute the denial and resistance to the human tendency to self-delusion and the recognition that we are less rational than we believe. There are 23 contributors with discussions and replies in a total of ten chapters. In the foreword, Chris Rapley, CBE, Professor of Climate Science at University College London, writes that we are collectively responsible for the driving forces resulting from human activities such as greenhouse emissions and the transformation of the Earth's land surface. We are also capable of taking actions. The thesis is that psychoanalysis has an important contribution to make toward understanding people's engagement with climate change and that an interdisciplinary exchange is vital to further this understanding. The book includes contributions from psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, politics, social theory, philosophy, ethics, human rights, advertising, marketing, history, and public policy. It is somewhat lacking in basic science. Although there are points of disagreement, the discussion is important in the need to understand what is happening to our climate and our world. The thesis of this book is that global warming is happening and is largely man-made, consistent with the testimony of NASA scientist James Hansen before the U.S. Congress that the planet is burning because we are heating so much fossil fuel and emitting so much carbon dioxide. As Sally Weintrobe, psychoanalyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in London, notes in the introduction of the book: “the tragedy for humans and animals, however, is that climate stability has already been damaged and that the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases already released by our coal and oil-hungry economies will remain in the Earth's atmosphere for thousands of years.” The interdisci