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.

As I read the earlier postings of this week, this paper stuck out the most to me because, it presents an argument that maybe the human population will continue to destroy the planet and before long it will be too late, and what next? Conquering another planet just to destroy it as well? Lately in class I have been all about the what if's in life. What if everyone was to recylce and the whole world went green, would this save us? What if people stopped littering and making waste depsits out of our oceans, lakes and streams, would dead zones and water "twisters" become nonexistant?

my oldest daughter, lena, who teaches middle school spanish @ community roots charter school in brooklyn, shared this w/ me to night. i thought it might interest you all especially since it's by-and-about van jones, whose environmental work we're reading about for tuesday's class: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/12/opinions/van-jones-messy-truth/
anne

          I agree with Penguin18 in that the therapist represented a figure who proposed denial was a good way for Kranti, or for humans in general, to live happily. Denial is an evident theme represented in characters like Bananabelle, the President, and even the animals.

When I first started reading As the World Burns, I, just like the author of "As the World Burns Questions and Response," felt hopeless. It seemed like absolutely nothing could work. None of our so-called simple solutions would ever be viable. However, when reading the end battle scene and viewing the images, I felt a new sense of possibility and hope. Just the fact that the humans and the animals eventually came together to defeat what was killing the earth filled me with a new sense of hope.