Metaphysical freedom, experienced as a state of lucidity, can allow for balanced change in our understanding of ecology as it creates opportunities for individuals to develop a dynamic moral mindset in line with our ever-changing relationship with nature and empower them to enact intentional change. Entering a state of lucidity, a state where we recognise our responsibility in creating our own meaning, will give us a position from which to birth creative solutions in the face of loss. Processing eco-grief and moral injury, in our current state of global climate-crisis, provides opportunities to reflect on our appeals to futility or authority, and other approaches to nature that are frequented as means to exonerate us from our responsibility to nature. I argue that environmental disseminators and organisations have the more difficult job of empowering individuals to reflect on their moral injury, than corporations and institutions who wish to offer exoneration to the individual from their moral injury for continued capital gain. How we act in response to our moral injury and eco-grief comes to shape our world.
