The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis: Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine

Blending the external focus of environmentalism Western science, policy issues, regulations with the internal focus of Chinese medicine personal health, qi, diet practitioner Brendan Kelly reveals climate change as a symptom of deeper issues, both within us as individuals and within our culture. Chinese medicine, through thousands of years of use, has developed insightful ways of treating sickness and promoting well-being on an individual level. Kelly recognized, through the holistic thinking embedded in the medicine, that our personal well-being and climate health are intimately connected and that from the view of Chinese medicine, the rapid and dramatic destabilization of the climate is an opportunity to confront our invididual and global ailments.