Why do social injustices and ecological harms persist despite the powerful social movements that have arisen throughout history to counter them?
In my new book, Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming the Fear of Death Is Politically Vital, I argue that social movements have been mostly missing a main target — the fear of death that regularly shapes bad human behaviour.
Birth and death — the two bookends to our lives — are largely beyond our control. It is easy to feel small in the face of an existence that doesn’t answer to us.
