| Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD
Nature: Visible and Invisible
The greatest environmental challenge facing humanity is global warming. I find it difficult to convey the severity of this issue to the public using the language of scientific fact. Evoking imagination is a more powerful way to
a creative way to address global environmental problems. In attempts to tell the story of our relationship to the environment many words appear with the prefix dis-, such as: dissonance, disconnection, dismissal, disrupted
the underworld. Hades is the god who lives apart from others and, as such, gives birth to an alterity of invisibility. Hades is also the possessor of the riches of Earth. Dis is an archetypal force that entraps and separates. H
how Nature becomes invisible to us and how in separating from Nature we look upon it as an inanimate resource to be used and abused. Using stories of Dis I explore how we can re-member our interdependence in Natu
Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where he is a member of the Climate Change Research Section. He has published over 100 articles on Earth's climate system. Hi
their relation to extinctions. Jeff holds a M.A. in psychology, and is currently in the control stage of training in the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. His thesis is Nature: Visible and Invisible. He is interested in ho
facilitated though psychological reflection. |