{"id":583,"date":"2012-05-08T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=583"},"modified":"2012-11-04T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T16:38:31","slug":"solomon-benatars-forward-to-billy-beaver-an-environmental-allegory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/solomon-benatars-forward-to-billy-beaver-an-environmental-allegory\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Benatar&#8217;s Forward to &#8220;Billy Beaver: An Environmental Allegory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_592\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spring2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592 \" title=\"photography by Amy Lenzo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spring2012-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"photography by Amy Lenzo\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spring2012-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spring2012-135x196.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spring2012.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Amy Lenzo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some years ago Michael Aleksiuk submitted a pdf of his book &#8216;<em>Billy Beaver: An Environmental Allegory<\/em>&#8216; to <em>Gatherings<\/em>. \u00a0Its premise is that the human striving for status is at the psychological roots of environmental degradation. This &#8216;children&#8217;s story&#8217; has been heartily endorsed by academics and scholars worldwide as a breakthrough in understanding. It is still available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/journal\/ezine\/archive2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gatherings Archives of Jan 05 &#8211; December 05. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>All those years ago Solomon Benatar was invited to write a foreword to &#8216;Billy Beaver&#8217; and he tracked us down so that we can include his foreword here with the original story; download and read his work here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Forew2-Billy-Beaver.pdf\">Billy Beaver Foreword<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago Michael Aleksiuk submitted a pdf of his book &#8216;Billy Beaver: An Environmental Allegory&#8216; to Gatherings. &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/solomon-benatars-forward-to-billy-beaver-an-environmental-allegory\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[239,238,240,237],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","tag-environmental-degradation","tag-michael-aleksiuk","tag-psychological-roots","tag-solomon-benatar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-9p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}