Climate change upset the balance of the planet, but also that of individuals, unprepared for disasters. "The psychology and psychologists can provide important tools for managing current and future challenges of a world characterized by the increasing complexity '. "He explained Truett Anderson, a scientist involved in promoting the role of social psychology to address the problems of the Global Impact Warning, which held in Rome, one keynote address, the Accademia Filarmonica in a meeting sponsored by 'Order of Psychologists of Lazio.
"We are all affected - said the vice president of the Association of Psychologists of Lazio, Paolo Cruciani, opening the meeting - from the many environmental disasters that are upsetting the balance of planet, the latter being the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As an Order we have felt the urgent need to stop and reflect on the future of our land and the responsibilities men, listening to the analysis and suggestions of Professor Truett Anderson.
In his lecture, then, the American expert explained the social responsibility of psychology and its tasks in the face of major climatic changes, capable of change life on earth and arouse deep anxieties in people.
Three appear to be - according to his analysis - the big questions to be answered. First, remove the emotional aspects of terrorist communications often tied to major environmental changes, that can be used to exert real forms of repression in society. Second, the prevention of irrational responses people that can trigger primitive and violent actions or deep despair. The third: to encourage an open mind connected to political and moral responsibility to a growing awareness that we are the ship, we ourselves are the earth, it organically integrated. Herein lies the strategic dimension of psychology, which should be promoted from the earliest levels of training, a service popular with school psychology.
"All citizens of planet earth - said Anderson - need a new form of emotional literacy, which enables them to understand that we live in dell'Antropocene, as defined by Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, a member of 'Academy World of Arts and Sciences. Because human beings for the first time in the history of the planet have become the single most important variable that impacts not only humans but all life forms on the planet ".
If human beings are" blind and ignorant of their deadly power that the consequences will be catastrophic for everyone. The psychology and psychologists - has concluded Anderson - can provide important tools for managing current and future challenges of a world characterized by increasing complexity.
"This is the evolution of the human species and its ability to understanding and managing the impact we have on ourselves, others and all life forms. E 'need to understand, at all levels of responsibility, how can we address the current challenges, among which stand global warming, resource use and even more the identity and sense of belonging to the human system Earth and the complex web of life. "
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