Ecopsychology and the evolution of men

Science and Technology
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I put this in science specifically, because much of it is based on peer-reviewed science. It looks at how men are acting now and tracks it back to our early days in hunter gatherer tribes. You might think a lot of it is fluff, because it’s directed at personal issues, how men are treated and how they treat women and how they navigate their feelings in a world that does not encourage men showing their feelings. So, either just brush that off, or think about, or whatever. Or filter through it, looking for the science. The science in it is definitely good.

This is the conference they are talking about. People come from all over the world for it.

Minnesota Mens Conference

I live near where the conference happens, so if you come up, let me know. I haven’t been to one in a few years, but I think about it every year.

Almost forgot, first, the link, and, a quote at the end, “If a person doesn’t feel the warmth of the community (tribe), they will burn it down.”

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Finally got around to listening to this, it’s nice, but in its bubble.

This side story was fascinating and is worth thinking about in its own right.

Considering I lived in Yosemite National Park, first the valley, then Wawona (a wonder back in the early ‘70s) for around three years after high school, with John Muir already being a hero of mine. Haven’t thought of him in a long time, and I do appreciate this angle that I fully understand. Understand what? Understand how various California Indian tribes, (heck most all Indians) managed and manipulated their landscapes to enhance foraging and hunting abundance.

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“… Exactly. And the one way I describe the paradigm shift is that we have to remake all of our systems, our educational systems, our spiritual systems, our economic systems, our psychological systems to uh to reintegrate ourselves into the environment. And it’s a problem in uh …

Back to that interview, its wonderful stuff, but it’s in a bubble - as if our near term future isn’t going to be factor to how humans are going to behave.

Just Have a Think - Emperors New Climate Scenario

Jul 6, 2025

JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report which spelled out to its investors how they should be adapting to the coming storm and pointed out all the lucrative investment opportunities a warming planet presents (like melting sea ice & thawing permafrost opening up new trade routes and mining sites, and increasing temperatures providing an uplift to the air-conditioning market.

Meanwhile the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who are financial risk managers, published their own analysis with a very different outlook.

This video compares and contrasts the two reports.

JP Morgan Chase - Introduction to Climate Intuition https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/…
Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - The Emperors New Climate Scenarios https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydew…
Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - Climate Scorpion- The sting is in the Tail https://actuaries.org.uk/media/g1qevr…
Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - Planetary Solvency - Finding our balance with nature. https://actuaries.org.uk/document-lib…
Banking on Climate Finance - Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2025 https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org…

Neither does the video take any sort of evolution appreciating approach, again like being in a bubble.

It’s nice, soothing, perhaps even motivational, and we do need motiving and striving - even if only in small ways, because in the end we’re living one day at a time, and today is the one that matter, so trying to do the “right thing” does matter.

Excuse me if you think this is off topic, I think our future doesn’t care about the stories we tell ourselves. And preparing oneself for dealing with the ugliness steaming at us, is sort of job one..

You can’t become a “Man”, without some deeper - self sustaining - appreciation for who one is to begin with. It’s quite probable it is impossible to become a ‘true” Man, without a loving Mom and Dad figure in one’s earliest formative years.

In short, it’s a splendid talk, but it’s not near enough.

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Now here’s something that was fun to listen to, starts at 11:00 full punch-line arrives about a minute later. As you might be able to imagine hearing someone champion the importance of including body in our philosophizing does this little heart good. :v:

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