21 April 2019

• Amenable: Open and responsive to suggestions; easily persuaded and controlled. 
• Analyzing interviews and documents, we found that, while these firms initially framed  climate change in broad terms, organizational engagement with the concept inevitably resulted in more limited and less threatening ideas and practices that were amenable to prevailing discourses of profit maximization and "business as usual".  (Wright & Nyberg)
• Hand-wringing: The excessive display of concern or distress. 
• Our aim in this editorial is not to join the collective hand-wringing, but rather to offer insights aligned with our editorial's team focus on new ways of seeing. (AMJ)
• Prognosis:The likely course of a medical condition; a forecast of the likely outcome of the situation. 
• Although this book is a diagnoses rather than a prognosis -an analysis rather than a solution-its results have a bearing on our course of action. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)  
• Automaton: A person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner without intelligence
• After centuries of struggles, man succeeded in building an undreamed-of wealth of material goods; he built democratic societies in parts of the world, and recently was victorious in defending himself against new totalitarian schemes; yet, as analysis in Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lost it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)