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If you’re not overwhelmed, something’s wrong with you

By Erik Curren | August 16, 2011

It's all good illustration

"The shock, the anger, the sense of overwhelm are all understandable," says psychotherapist Kathy McMahon of the moment when someone first hears about peak oil and gets how scary it can be. McMahon, who practices therapy in Northhampton, MA as the "Peak Shrink," thinks that society needs to normalize the anxiety that people feel about ecological overshoot so that more people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Candide, futurology, Gottfried Leibniz, Kathy McMahon, Laurence Gonzales, overshoot, Peak Moment TV, Voltaire

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