This week #funding for #Antarctic #science was cut by $25 million, at a time when Antarctic ice loss is critically low (2.6 million square kilometers of sea ice have been lost, currently at the lowest levels in at least 120 yr). As a result of these budget cuts, important science projects including surveys of sea-ice thickness have been cancelled. Meanwhile, $200 million in funding has just been announced by the same government in the same week for #sports.
Virtually every news broadcast has a dedicated sports segment played on (very frequent) loop around the clock in Australia. We have dedicated sports channels, radio blocked out for days at time. Our children can rattle off their favourite players jersey numbers along with endless stats about who won what game or medal. Yet when I speak with school groups NONE can answer the question “who’s your favourite Australian scientist?”. We are so fortunate to have WORLDCLASS scientists in Australia! Those individuals don’t do it for fame or fortune. In fact, most are employed on horrendous casual contracts, massively overworked, burdened with #ecogrief and woefully underpaid. They don’t get airtime. Their selflessness and dedication to the voiceless (nature) and greater good isn’t celebrated. We don’t win medals.

FFS Australia, teach your children about the real heroes. Fund those working to make society a better, safer, fairer place. Stop being distracted by pretty shiny things. Please, we are 💯 running out of time! #ClimateCrisis #BrainDrain #BiodiversityCrisis #PollutionCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/22/ive-spent-40-years-in-antarctic-research-right-now-its-facing-a-climate-emergency-so-we-must-not-put-vital-science-on-ice

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/19/albanese-government-to-pledge-200m-for-womens-sport-after-matildas-inspire-australia

The "Tree of Life" with "leaves" that participants added during the Land-Ment ritual I facilitated this morning at the Parliament of the World's Religions. #parliament #PoWR #ecology #ClimateChange #EcoGrief #TreeOfLife #Yggdrasil

Here is the altar for the Land-Ment ritual I facilitated this morning at the Parliament of the World's Religions (@InterfaithWorld. #parliament #PoWR #ecology #ClimateChange #EcoGrief

Today (21 June) is #ShowYourStripes day! I encourage everyone to share their 'warming stripes' - visuals that represent observed temperature changes - and start a climate conversation (don’t forget to also lend support to someone suffering with #ecogrief). You can download stripes customised to your region here ➡️ https://www.ShowYourStripes.info
Here are ‘my’ stripes showing the extent of #GlobalWarming in #WesternAustralia

Today our beautiful, broken #AdriftLab team removed >400 #plastics from one baby #seabird and >50g from another. It’s been rough (!), proud of how we’ve rallied around one another 💔🐦♻️

#PlasticIsNotADistraction #Ecogrief #LordHoweIsland #PollutionIsADesignChoice #PlasticPollution #shearwaters #BiodiversityCrisis #SentinelSpecies #Plasticingestion
@SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

RT @IlanKelman
#Transdisciplinary collaboration for #MentalHealth.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100206
By @invisibleflock @LBecologies

Exciting #ecoaction #ecohope #inspiration for addressing #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #ClimateStress #Solastalgia.

#DRR #ClimateTwitter #EMGTwitter

RT @IlanKelman@twitter.com

#Transdisciplinary collaboration for #MentalHealth.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100206
By @invisibleflock@twitter.com @LBecologies@twitter.com

Exciting #ecoaction #ecohope #inspiration for addressing #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #ClimateStress #Solastalgia.

#DRR #ClimateTwitter #EMGTwitter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IlanKelman/status/1616360661193310210

I worked hard today because my best wishes for you come as sound ▶️ https://anchor.fm/naturematchcuts/episodes/Season-01-Ep-05-She-Dies-In-Beauty-Why-You-Can-Feel-Both-Eco-Grief-And-Hope-e1sueft

Join me for a very special #RestrictedArea with a dying #tree and a paradise for #birds. A very personal episode of how to deal with #EcoGrief and feel #awe, #oneness and #interconnectedness with #nature

Wishing you all the best!

#HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve #NewYear #newyearsresolution #NatureMatchCuts #podcast
(just published, takes some time to reach all apps)

My new #podcast episode for #NatureMatchCuts is scripted. Title: She* Dies in Beauty.
Why You Can Feel Both #EcoGrief AND #Hope
*(a very special tree)

Exhausted and hungry, I drag myself into the kitchen. :blobcatknife:

Get up early in the morning, record, and edit. I have to hurry so that no firecrackers are heard. Special edition for the new year (Paris time).

Find everything about the podcast here: https://naturematchcuts.net
#nature #naturelovers #biodiversity #climatecrisis

My new #podcast episode for #NatureMatchCuts is scripted. Title: She* Dies in Beauty.
Why You Can Feel Both #EcoGrief AND #Hope
*(a very special tree)

Exhausted and hungry, I drag myself into the kitchen. :blobcatknife:

Get up early in the morning, record, and edit. I have to hurry so that no firecrackers are heard. Special edition for the new year (Paris time).

Find everything about the podcast here: https://naturematchcuts.net
#nature #naturelovers #biodiversity #climatecrisis

Madame crawls saplessly (plant writing) to a coffee.😂 Episode 5 of my #podcast #NatureMatchCuts is scripted. :jeb:

Now I'm going to fire up my AI grammar nitpicker, look for missing words and play the harsh proofreader. On 31st December the rather daring episode will be published. It's about #EcoGrief and #interbeingness #unselfing #interconnectedness

Listen to other episodes ▶️ https://naturematchcuts.net and don't forget to subscribe to it on your favourite app/platform! #WritersLife #nature

@beimwort ich denke, das passiert schon. Umgang mit #EcoGrief, Kritik an turbokapitalistischem Denken (z.B #Degrowth), Hinterfragen "bürgerlicher Werte" (machen Maloche oder Karriere glücklich? Was ist Glück?) Wendezeiten kann man nicht planen, aber aus der Geschichte lernen. Menschen, die Kubakrise + schlimmsten Kalten Krieg erlebten, sahen auch nur Dystopie, aber kriegten genau darum den Hintern hoch, machten was ... #SolutionsJournalism

My circulation today is a wild wave (10° warmer outside) and the roads are slippery. So I grab my inspirational manager Bilbo and head into the #forest. Afterwards, I'll treat myself to a good book and work double time tomorrow. Being a freelancer must have one advantage!

Wait ... it's work. Because in my next podcast episode I'll talk about #nature and #selfcare in times of #ecoGrief

#forestwalk #oaks #oak #beagle #dogsofmastodon #hiking #NaturePark #VosgesDuNord #Alsace

A huge dead #tree lay naturally fallen in the #forest today. It had been dead for many years and hollowed out by #mushrooms, #woodpeckers and other animals. There is a quiet dignity around its crown.

And vibrant life. Birds peck insects and small rodents seek shelter from the cold. The time of #soillife has come and that of #mosses and #lichens.
#deadwood

In my next podcast episode (coming on New Year's Eve), I want to talk about #ecoGrief and how I find #comfort in #nature. #NatureMatchCuts

@PaulaRead In a time when #ecogrief becomes more relevant, your point is so important that we lose the #knowledge about whole #ecosystems without rituals and even traditions of lore.

I have made the experience that by working/making rituals together on the topic, you can also interest people who have repressed these issues. Greetings from France to France!👋