From book #ActiveHope by #JoannaMacy & #ChrisJohnstone on #ClimateDespair & Hope.

Where are you? Business as Usual- denial/not doing your part to slow down damage; The Great Unraveling, you recognize & acknowledge there’s a problem re the natural world & climate crisis, widening inequality, dis & Misinformation re what’s going on; or The Great Turning—turning towards raising awareness & engaging in behaviors that support the flourishing of life.
I’m moving toward The Great Turning. Join me?

Join me in reading #ActiveHope by #JoannaMacy & #ChrisJohnstone

If there’s interest, I’ll offer a free on going Zoom group to explore the book and work with #ClimateDespair (I’m American on the east coast but I’ll be sensitive to time zones).

This will not be a (small) group to debate #ClimateChange but rather how to be a okay and PRACTICE active hope, despite the despairing circumstances, in the context that climate change is real & humanity IS in part creating this mess.

In climate conversations lately I feel a bit like Arwen in her first appearance in Fellowship of the Ring, telling Frodo not to give in to the spreading evil infection of the Morgul blade as she works furiously with Aragorn and Sam to make a poultice out of kingsfoil.

Trying to tell people in the midst of climate catastrophe not to give in to despair and doomerism because it will consume their soul as I get my friends and their friends to apply plants to stop the poison... #ClimateDespair

@cian @adamgreenfield to be fair, I think he suffers from a combination of depression and a rational assessment of the impending doom of life on Earth – as I do myself. But I feel his response is driven more by panic and despair – with which I sympathise – than by rationality.

#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateDespair

@Jessica I predict the future. I'm a pessimist. I'm right more often than I'm wrong. 😐

That's precisely why I have no idea where I'm going to be in a year's time! It's impossible to make sensible meaningful plans with everything collapsing around you! #ClimateDespair

I'm devastated! One of my favorite trees in my little patch of forest just fell. 😭 [sobbing emoji]

It's hard to get a sense of the scale in photos, but this was a huge, straight, tall, #WesternHemlock #tree. It was home to so many critters. I've sat under it and had squirrels yell at me and bats swoop around my head. I knew it's position was precarious, being right on the edge of a steep ravine cut by a seasonal creek, but being near the creek is part of what made it a great place to sit (and probably for the animals, part of what made it a great place to live).

I had hoped that the roots would be strong enough to hold it as long as it was alive, but with the amount of rain we've gotten and the wildly fast winds, I guess it was too much.

I know trees fall, that's just part of it, but I find it difficult not get into a cycle of #ClimateDespair when things like this happen. Is #ClimateChaos going to bring more of these irregular, heavy rains instead of our usual consistent, gentler rain, making more trees die and/or fall, furthering the disaster?

Maybe I'm unreasonable, but I just get really bummed out when things happen to trees.

Climate despair is ugly. I published a free 3-minute read on Medium to wring out some of my feelings. (Keep in mind that I have alexithymia so emotion isn't my strong point.)
https://madjsantos.medium.com/time-is-short-at-the-end-of-the-world-make-the-most-of-it-with-this-must-do-activity-374787fdd2cc
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateFiction #ClimateDespair #EndOfTheWorld #Apocalypse
#ShortStory #ShortFiction

Climate despair is ugly. I published a free 3-minute read on Medium to wring out some of my feelings. (Keep in mind that I have alexithymia so emotion isn't my strong point.)
https://madjsantos.medium.com/time-is-short-at-the-end-of-the-world-make-the-most-of-it-with-this-must-do-activity-374787fdd2cc
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateFiction #ClimateDespair #EndOfTheWorld #Apocalypse
#ShortStory #ShortFiction