I will take your bait. You as an eco-psychologist should know better than anyone that more than environment, psychology drives behavior and outcomes. It is our attitudes more than our environment that drives outcomes. Our nature and nurture more than the physical world are what is impactful. I think it is a stretch to say our environment that made those attitudes. Much of it is our nature, we are greedy, fearful, and gluttonous, by nature. I would even go so far as to say our environment does not have enough influence on us, we ignore the powerful messages it sends and just do what our nature inclines.

Take this as sort of a devil's advocate sentiment for further discussion. I appreciate your writing.

I often take a devil's advocate position because often the flip side does not get enough air play.

In High School 1974 I took the side of the Palestinians in a Social Studies debate about Israel when most people did not even know what of Palestinians. At the time I was a strong supporter of Israel, but nobody seemed to be able or willing to make a case for the Arabs in the region. To have a debate someone needs to present an agreement for each of the sides.

I feel like if you don't understand the other side, you are very handicapped.

TEK