"Talk is the fertile field in which cultural change begins; in its absence, it's impossible for a group of people to solve a problem. The goal of the conversation is not to tell people about climate change. It's to expand the number of people in the conversation."
Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.
Reading an essay (in French) about millenials and gen Z. One of the chapters is about eco-anxiety and the fact that it is fuelled by inactions of older people.
Happy to see that it is not all-older-people
You will find on this profile many ways to compost at home. And people who have experience with composting.
Entropy is not a fatality, you will learn with a compost pile how with the decay of organic matter, you can create a soil amendment that will make your landscape amazing.
Interesting to see this article from EuroNews acknowledging the problem of #Ecoanxiety.
While it’s important to be realistic about the #ClimateChange situation, it’s equally important to understand that things are changing in many areas for the better. We need that change to be faster, but also to dispel the notion of #AllIsLost that can paralyze us and drove us into #depression
What a delight to talk with Pastor Pihkala. He shares a grounded and centered theology of hope through meaning, and when prompted offers advice to Pastors and parents about how to help parishioners and children alike deal with eco-anxiety, or "climate anxiety."
I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change . . . I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy . . .and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don't know how to do that.
Therapists see surge in eco-anxiety as smoke fills skies.
"The climate crisis is a main talking point in the weekly therapy sessions. The more people experience the crisis first-hand, the more they realize they need to have support to talk about it...The fires have triggered a sense of fear, rage and despair, which is a completely healthy response to what we’re witnessing on Earth.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/climate-crisis-psychology-new-york-smoke
Re the uptick of #ecoanxiety and #climateanxiety in the wake of the wildfires and huge levels of smoke in major cities; this was my own climate “origin story”, 3 years ago during the Australian bushfires where my then-city of Canberra had the worst air quality in the world. It is vitally important that we don’t admonish people for not waking up to the urgency and dread earlier. We need to provide solidarity and intention to grow the #climateaction movement into meaningful change.