Archive for March 2019
Midwest Apocalypse – 1 million acres of US farmland devastated
Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Blog March 2019 We have never seen anything like this before. According to satellite data that was just released by Reuters, “at least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland” were covered by water for at least seven days this month. That is an agricultural disaster without equal in modern American…
My Life in Collapse – Bodhi Paul Chefurka
Posted on Facebook, March 29, 2019 I was recently asked to respond to a short email interview. My response seems like a nice summary of how I’ve spent the last decade and a half of my life, so I thought I would share it here. Bodhi Paul Chefurka. 1) What is collapsology and what role…
A Letter From a Generation Betrayed – Youth Strike 4 Climate
(Read the original letter in The Guardian) We, the young, are deeply concerned about our future. Humanity is currently causing the sixth mass extinction of species and the global climate system is at the brink of a catastrophic crisis. Its devastating impacts are already felt by millions of people around the globe. Yet we are…
The Endless Loop of Sameness – Deb Ozarko
This is post One of Three in her series… “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity” —Rollo May. We live in a world that continues to do battle with the content of “reality” with the inevitable outcome that little changes. The infinitesimal changes that do occur, inexorably amount to…
In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve – Dahr Jamail
(Read the article in Truthout here) In this excerpt from The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, author Dahr Jamail explains how he learned to process the heartbreaking truth of inevitable climate destruction and the possibility of mass extinction. In 2015, my best friend, Duane French, came…
Climate Change Has Already Happened – Dahr Jamail (video) March 2019
As posted in Truthout. March 2019. Expanding on the remarkable power of his recent book, The End of Ice:Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, Dahr Jamail speaks from his experience of these times and our predicaments, and generously shares his grief and heart with us.
A Climate of Change: A Therapeutic Response to Climate Change
This article was submitted by Joshua Alexander, a member of a newly formed Deep Adaptation Forum in the Coaching and Counseling group. This is a fine example of how many different disciplines intersect in this exploration of how humanity will cope and adapt as we face the collapse of Earth and human systems. Dean Walker…
When the Heart – From New Zealand with Love – Vimeo: Telling Lives
A simple, beautiful and profound message of our essential unity in humanity… our deepest drive, to love. (Original Vimeo link) WHEN THE HEART – M.Leunig When the heart Is cut or cracked or broken, Do not clutch it; Let the wound lie open. Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe…
Climate Change: Beyond the Tipping Point – Joe Tyndall video
This is a rapid-fire chain of very useful and sometimes surprising findings and projections. This video is well worth the time and energy to really take it in.
Facing Extinction – Catherine Ingram
Catherine Ingram Facing Extinction facingextinction For much of my life, I thought our species would soon go extinct. I assumed we might last another hundred years if we were lucky. Now I suspect we are facing extinction in the near future. Can I speculate as to exactly when that might happen? Of course not. My…