Grief
The Five Most Important Climate Change Facts – Job One for Humanity February 2019
(Read the original article here) The 5 Most Important (and shocking) Global Warming Facts Introduction This article not only sums up the most important things to know about global warming, it also simplifies the core message of our website. It is intended to assist mature and intelligent individuals review difficult but accurate global warming…
In Facing Mass Extinction We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve – Dahr Jamail
Reposted from Truthout 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 down with pneumonia…
The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists – Erika Spanger-Siegfried
(read full article in Common Dreams) ((Dean – I am no fan of hope, even as expressed here. It makes no distinction between hoping for continued life on Earth…and, continued Business as Usual Human Operating System. But there is a sweetness to the heart of the ancient story she shares.)) We’re stepping into a new…
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
Deena Metzger. Tikkun Magazine “Everyone says climate is the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on as before. I don’t understand that. Because if the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no gray areas when it comes to…
Thinking about Climate on a Dark, Dismal Morning – Kate Marvel
(Read original article in Scientific American) Kate Marvel. December 25, 2018 It’s six in the morning of the shortest day of the year. The sky is dark. When the sun finally rises it will disappear behind leaden gray clouds and tall gray buildings streaked with rust. I’m on a train watching the wastelands of postindustrial…
Climate Grief: The growing emotional toll of climate change – NBC News
(read original in NBC News) Dec. 24, 2018 / 2:35 AM PST By Avichai Scher When the U.N. released its latest climate report in October, it warned that without “unprecedented” action, catastrophic conditions could arrive by 2040. For Amy Jordan, 40, of Salt Lake City, a mother of three teenage children, the report caused a…
I Felt Despair About Climate Change—Until a Brush With Death Changed My Mind – ALISON SPODEK KEIMOWITZ
(Read the original in Slate) This extraordinary article is a superlative example of how our mortality can transform us, humble us, fill us with grace and kindness… even as it is kicking our ass. March 2018. I was dying. Not just in the way that we’re all inching inevitably toward our own deaths each moment;…
Some People Wake Up – Francis Weller
Some People Wake Up: Reflections on Initiation ©Francis Weller Again and again Some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd And they emerge according to broader laws. They carry strange customs with them, And demand room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. -Rainer Maria Rilke Dear friend. No doubt…
Peter Oren sings: Anthropocene
American Psychosis. Chris Hedges
This is not only Chris Hedges at his most potent and succinct – it is a gorgeous video production by AmericanCanary.org. They are a new production group that has an obvious combination of heart, talent and vision. Please visit their site and support their work. This may be the most important 15 minutes you spend…