Wrong Attitudes

Responding to “Society in Denial”, I agree that the therapist unfortunately represents the majority of people’s viewpoints. When Kranti visits him and discusses her worries about the environment he does not address those issues at all. Instead, he asks things like how her relationship is with her father which has nothing to do with her concerns at all. The therapist acts as if she is the one with the problem for caring about the environment. He even labels her as depressed and paranoid. The visit with the therapist conveys how environmentalists are treated as the minority and therefore are looked as the ones acting inappropriately. According to the therapist what people should be doing is ignoring the environment because he claims that by worrying about it Kranti is not living in the real world and advises her to ignore the growing problems along with the majority of the world.

Caring about the environment and other issues that don’t obviously affect our lives adds additional stress to the stress people already go through on a daily basis. Also, not everyone is paying attention or witnessing the increased emissions of carbon and melting glaciers so it’s easy to ignore. Because of that many people decide to focus only on their own personal issues and ignore the degrading environment. People’s attitudes have to change. Instead of only paying attention to short term effects people have to learn to look at the long term effects and understand that everyone has the responsibility to take care of our Earth. Even though people don’t want more problems than they already have its imperative that we be more aware of our current situation and try to find ways to reduce the damage together.