It is 2007 or 2008. I am walking in one of the university buildings and there is a poster advertising a new seminar on climate change. It says something on the lines of "if we keep walking in the direction we are going, we'll arrive to the place where we are going".
Now it's 2023. October. I'm walking on a trail watching the leaves fall from the trees. But instead of the cold and crisp autumn air, I'm sweating, and the weather forecast projects 82F (28C). Just 5 days ago it was 64F (18C). Abrupt temperature changes like that are though for me and I go through the day in a haze and with a mild headache.
Systems have ways to keep themselves stable, but can also go through rapid transitions as they look for the next stable point. This year, more than others, I'm having the nagging feeling that something has tipped. The nagging feeling that we have arrived to where we were going.
@marews 😊 i should have just left that off, it’s a bit stupid. I just meanr that none of us are really emotionally ready, and also of course even less ready in terms of actual #Adaption, #Resilience; but really not sure whether it’s helpful to even talk about “readiness”. In short, it was not particularly thought-through
@georgetakei Actually it is. Humans and many other beings have survived for so long because they changed with their environment. It's only now we're so detached from our natural surroundings because somewhere in the past we told ourselves we're separate from nature. Which funny enough is also the reason we got ourselves into this mess. #ClimateChange#Climate#Adapt#Change#Adaption#Transformation#Science#Biology