I resonate with you overall. Climate crisis cannot be avoided, the extent of which is the tip of the doomsday glacier! After living in Tattoine (Aus) I moved further south to Tasmania (next stop Antartica) Here in my small town community spirit still exists. Many of us know how to hunt, fish, trap, and grow food. We barter or give away excess. My list of family and friends include those with their own homes, gardens, boats, tools etc, also acreages in remote areas with their own rivers, trees wildlife, etc with dwellings and sheds completely off grid. I changed my role 9 months ago to join the horticultural industry. Right now the grass is green, our dams are full, spring lambs are everywhere, flowers blooming, bees buzzing. Here we may have a litlle longer? perhaps. One bad season or incident can change all that. so every day I get to plant something in my garden, Im grateful. Sea level rise is the top of my concerns.
You know, there’s something almost reassuring about an article like this, when the author refuses to pussyfoot around the idea that worst-case scenarios are fast becoming most-likely realities. Perhaps it is fatalistic to have no faith in governments and corporations who uphold the late-capitalist system, but it feels unrealistic to expect anything of them.
Personally, accepting the inevitability of the collapse of habitable climate and civilisation is where I’m at now, but the thing I’m struggling with most is how much I should talk about it with people who don’t want to hear it? Particularly when they are actively trying to start families and bring new life into the world, I worry that they don’t realise/ignore the extent of suffering that their future children are bound to experience in their lifetime.
I resonate with you overall. Climate crisis cannot be avoided, the extent of which is the tip of the doomsday glacier! After living in Tattoine (Aus) I moved further south to Tasmania (next stop Antartica) Here in my small town community spirit still exists. Many of us know how to hunt, fish, trap, and grow food. We barter or give away excess. My list of family and friends include those with their own homes, gardens, boats, tools etc, also acreages in remote areas with their own rivers, trees wildlife, etc with dwellings and sheds completely off grid. I changed my role 9 months ago to join the horticultural industry. Right now the grass is green, our dams are full, spring lambs are everywhere, flowers blooming, bees buzzing. Here we may have a litlle longer? perhaps. One bad season or incident can change all that. so every day I get to plant something in my garden, Im grateful. Sea level rise is the top of my concerns.
You know, there’s something almost reassuring about an article like this, when the author refuses to pussyfoot around the idea that worst-case scenarios are fast becoming most-likely realities. Perhaps it is fatalistic to have no faith in governments and corporations who uphold the late-capitalist system, but it feels unrealistic to expect anything of them.
Personally, accepting the inevitability of the collapse of habitable climate and civilisation is where I’m at now, but the thing I’m struggling with most is how much I should talk about it with people who don’t want to hear it? Particularly when they are actively trying to start families and bring new life into the world, I worry that they don’t realise/ignore the extent of suffering that their future children are bound to experience in their lifetime.