Human-to-nature relationship is psychology

zion

The one discipline that, sad to say, has hitherto remained virtually untouched by any concern for the environment or the human-to-nature relationship is psychology. You will search in vain in the texts and journals of any of the major schools of psychology—clinical, behaviorist, cognitive, physiological, humanistic or transpersonal—for any theory or research concerning the most basic fact of human existence: the fact of our relationship to the natural world of which we are a part.
Any thoughts on whether your relationship with nature is or should be a genuine concern?

Danger

Welcome to PF, Zion.
I certainly can't speak for any of the others here.
My view is that my ancestors spent millions of years to put me at the top of the food chain, and I intend to remain there. The only pleasure that I derive from eating is in knowing that something died violently so that I could eat it. The perfect fast-food is a chainsaw and a cow... fire is optional.
I wouldn't consume a carrot until some idiot in California announced that plants were intelligent. And if I don't hear one of those little orange bastards scream pretty soon, they're off of my diet.

Smurf

Freud wrote on that subject.

Smurf

You wouldn't really expect most of psychology to try to tackle that one because psychology is very specific in what it studies, and it's almost all internal.

A few areas of psychology are focused on that though, evolutionary psychology, for example.

Evo

zion, I forgot to ban you the other day for spamming your website advertising Sorry, we don't allow this kind of thing here.

Danger

Don't ban him, dammit! Throw him on the BBQ; I'm hungry.

Smurf

I assume since he's still here, that your giving him a second chance?

Evo

Time to line out his name?

Smurf

Well, I'm all for second chances. I'm pretty sure I've had one or two over the years.

Math Is Hard

Yes, but you had those GOOBF cards. I forget how you earned them.

Danger

It had something to do with copious amounts of chocolate that somehow slipped past the border guards.

Lisa!

They'd got engaged together!

hypatia

Looks like hes been posting this same things in many forums.

Smurf

Actually, I never got any GOOBF cards. I didn't need them because I got immunity from the engagement.

Evo

Yep, you had unlimited immunity at one time, then you cheated on me. And just after I finished our matching his & her gowns.

Math Is Hard

Astronuc

Why would there need to be a theory or research. We are part of nature. There are those who exploit it, and there are those who care for it. There are university programs in forestry and wildlife management, etc. Why would there need to by a psychological study?

Why should it be a concern? Should I be concerned about being outside in the sun, or gardening, or managing the trees on my property?

I do organic gardening so that the fruit and vegetables are free of pesticides, which is beneficial to myself, my family, and the beneficial insects like bees, butterflies, preying mantisses, ladybugs, . . .

Right now in raspberry season, I manually remove Japanese beetles from the raspberries, blackberries and other plants. We also use beetle traps. I sure wish I could find a natural predator of Japanese beetles.