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"Is There an Ecological Unconscious?" written by Daniel B. Smith was published on New York Times (nytimes.com) on January 27, 2010.

Obviously, the answer to the title is YES!  

It is a human instinct (unconscious，our ancestors successful experiences saved on DNA) to find the safe ecological conditions where mankind can propagate offspring or keep DNA alive; otherwise, mankind can not survive. (Re #1)

Everybody wants happiness, but not many people ask why. Even less people think that there are two kinds of happiness: valid and invalid ones.

The problem is that there prevails so much invalid happiness that causes serious trouble of ecological unconscious today. Still, few people think this can be solved by simply thinking by means of our very common sense as stated below. (Re #1-3)

Enlarged Home-Sick

Home sick is that one left his or her home and located in a new place, where the new conditions make him or her very difficult to cope with, and hence cause his or her mind perturbed in a very unsafe state and eagerly want to be back to home.

Common sense tells us that human mind or soul is the computation results of instinct and pre-instinct data, which control all the physiological as well as psychological functions of human. (Re #1)

The "solastalgia" (G. Albrecht) should fall in the same kind of enlarged home-sick, as if the feeling of their living environment is to be lost and being nowhere to survive.  

Culprit of Home-Sick

It is right that “We must look at the reasons people are not acting in order to understand how to get people to act." (J. Swim). Obviously, to get people to act is to let them understand the foolishness of pursuing invalid happiness first, and then be at the optimal point of happiness. (Re #2)

Biophilia

Biophilia (E. O. Wilson) is naturally true if one believes that the human instinct of valid happiness is the momentarily feeling of things a step better for keeping DNA alive.

Biophillia is the very origin of human aesthetics. That is why people like babies, children, flowers, and nature with plants and animals. For the same reason, even astronauts do not like stay on the lifeless moon.

Everybody has to be biophillic; otherwise he or she will be in a circumstance where he or she can not survive.  (Re #1)

Ecopsychology (O. Doherty) must be based on this, too.

Ecotherapy

Ecotherapy is apparently effective if it is believed that human soul is the computation results of human instinct data, which are constantly polling of the environment conditions for safety, etc. with ultra high accuracy and precision. (Re #1)

If human soul finds an unsafe factor present, the brain will constantly focus on this factor and try its best to make it safe. Thus, there must be some other physiological and psychological functions that the brain can not pay enough attention as usual.

Hence, the ecotherapy works.

Rewilding

Obviously, the success of psychologically rewilding (P. Kan) should be based on a process of removing of invalid happiness rather than anything else. That is, maintain all the happiness valid close to or up to the 10,000-years-ago norm. (Re #1)

Soliphilia

Apparently, the best and easiest way to Soliphilia (G. Albrecht) is to diminish or eliminate foolish invalid happiness. (Re #2)

Conclusion

There is an ecological instinct, which constantly polls the safety data of environment. Today's ecologically unsafe problem is caused by pursuing the invalid happiness too much. (Re #1-5)

 References:  #1. W. Ying, articlesbasee.com, "Happy Life, Instincts, Wisdom, and Human Computer System."  #2. ibid, "Valid Happiness, Instinct and Wisdom."  #3. ibid, " Competing Instinct-Blindly or Instinct-Wisely?"  #4. ibid, "Happy Life, Depression and Suicide Are Managed by Instinct plus Wisdom."  #5. ibid, "Happy Life, Depression and Suicide Are Managed by Instinct plus Wisdom."  #5. ibid, "Greed and Reprogram Instinct: On Robert J. Samuelson's "the Perils of Prosperity.""

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W. Ying, a research chemist retired for 25 years, is the writer of the 700 blog posts and a book about 10,000-years-ago norm for life. These posts are application examples (mostly in bilingugal Chinese-English) for the book "Eat, Drink, Wear, Dwell etc.: An Easy Rule for Happy Health" (in Chinese). Welcome to contact him at http://blog.sina.com.cn/happywellness.
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