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213 Pages·2015·1.55 MB·English
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“Brendan Kelly uses his expertise in Chinese medicine to draw a connection between the environmental excesses that have led us to the age of climate change and the individual excesses that lead to depletion, imbalance, and disease. His fascinating book offers fresh, clear insight into the root causes of both, as well as a map toward greater personal and environmental health and balance.” —Kristin Kimball, author of The Dirty Life; farmer and co-founder of Essex Farm “The human body is a mirror of our home planet. The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis not only teaches that the body and earth are connected, it explains the need for healing both.” —Scott Frazier, member of the Crow/Santee tribe; founder and director of Project Indigenous “Brendan Kelly invites us to set aside our typical ways of thinking— reductionistic, fragmented, and dualistic—and to embrace a more holistic and systemic mode of thought. Using the conceptual framework of Chinese medicine, Kelly incisively diagnoses the source of what most ails us, both personally and collectively, and offers guidelines for meaningful change. What could be more important?” —John Christopher, PhD, Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Mind & Life Institutes “With a radically expansive understanding of holistic principles, Brendan Kelly shows us that the remedy for our individual bodies and our planet-body is the same. He invites us to look at the deeper causes of our situation and, in so doing, to experience deeper purpose and connection with life. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the earth.” —Sarah Von Hoy, PhD, LAc, professor at Goddard College “The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis is a brilliantly written, far-sighted exploration of climate change using Chinese medicine as an ancient way to see personal mind-body inflammation as deeply interrelated with the earth’s rising heat. This book empowers people to embrace cooler lifestyles and less inflammatory diets to help rebalance their own lives and in a small, yet organically powerful, way.” —Susan Green, PhD, department chair of Behavioral Sciences and director of Wellness & Alternative Medicine, Johnson State College The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine BRENDAN KELLY, LAC North Atlantic Books Berkeley, California Copyright © 2015 by Brendan Kelly. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books. Published by North Atlantic Books Berkeley, California Cover image © shutterstock.com/Alexandr79 Cover design by Mary Ann Casler The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis: Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature. North Atlantic Books’ publications are available through most bookstores. For further information, visit our website at www.northatlanticbooks.com or call 800-733-3000. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kelly, Brendan (Brendan D.), author. The yin and yang of climate crisis : healing personal, cultural, and ecological imbalance with Chinese medicine / Brendan Kelly. pages cm Summary: “Examines the current climate crisis through the lens of Chinese medicine.”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-1-58394-951-1 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-58394-952-8 (e-book) 1. Climatic changes—Health aspects. 2. Medical climatology. 3. Human beings—Effect of climate on. 4. Medicine, Chinese. I. Title. RA793.K45 2015 616.9'88—dc23 2015001171 Dedicated to my beautiful wife, Liz, who helped make this book happen in innumerable ways, both large and small Also dedicated to my parents, Joan and Richard, for a lifetime of love, support, and encouragement Acknowledgments To my wife, Liz—thank you for several years of keeping me fed, which provided me days at a time to write and research. And thank you for a decade of listening to me talk about the ideas that would become this book. To the patients at our clinic—thank you for the opportunity to see the depth of healing possible with Chinese medicine. To my current teachers of Chinese medicine, especially Wolfe Lowenthal and Jeffrey Yuen—thank you for all that you’ve given me and all of your students. To the teachers of my teachers of Chinese medicine, including Huang Di, Sun Si Miao, Zhang Zhong-jing, and Cheng Man-ch’ing—thank you for the wisdom you’ve imparted to generations of students and practitioners. And to Tim McKee, Richard Grossinger, and everyone at North Atlantic Books—thank you for seeing the potential in a Chinese medicine understanding of climate change. Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Sickness of Climate Change Chapter 2: The Science of Climate Change: A Chinese Medicine Perspective Chapter 3: The Meaning of Climate Change: The Personal Level Chapter 4: Feeding the Fire of Climate Change Chapter 5: The Water Phase: Oil and Jing Chapter 6: The Consequences of Continuous Growth: Wood and Wind Chapter 7: Quality Controls Quantity: Metal Controls Wood Chapter 8: The Dissatisfaction of Too Much Fire Chapter 9: Cancer and Climate Change: A Tale of Two Diagnoses Chapter 10: Internal Climate Change: Tongue Diagnosis Chapter 11: The Opportunities of Climate Change Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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