Anthropogenic global warming is increasingly destructive and may ultimately not be reparable. The influences on destructive actions by global societies appear to resemble, in some ways, the forces seen in individuals’ suicidality, suggesting that understanding the self-destructive forces we see in individuals may help us deal with the eco-destructive actions of global societies. In this paper, I use psychoanalytic perspectives on individual self-attacks to describe societal self-destructive climate responses that threaten human experience or even our existence. In particular, this involves considering models for understanding conscious and unconscious motivations for self-destructiveness and what may be inferred from an understanding of individual suicidality to the actions and attitudes of people toward anthropogenic climate change.