“Every Change Must Have a Cause” ¹ : Some Ecological Incidents, Ecologically Responsible Behaviors, and Their Cognitive and Affective Roots

It has been very normal to see environmental activists who gluedthemselves to paintings and cars on TV recently. The activists maythink that they can change people’s perspectives by these protests.Who are these protesters to tell others what to do? What is theirapproach? Do they really show ecologically responsible behaviors?Carl Gustav Jung emphasizes that people should first turn to theirinner worlds (Self) to be able to understand the outer world. Thismeans we need personal inner change before telling people tochange themselves. Christian mythology says “By the sweat of yourface you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it youwere taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19),this means “We created from soil and dust (birth) and we will returnto soil and dust (death)”. It is thought that we are already a reflectionof ecology therefore a priori knowledge is the root of ecological intelligence and holistic perspective in our minds and hearts. The aim ofthis paper is to present some examples of how we should look at theouter world while evaluating ecological incidents around us and ourinner world. These examples are very simple responsibilities and showthe components of the ecological intelligence in our minds.