I wrote 1000ish words this morning in my journal that expresses, in a very non linear messy way, what you wrote so articulately in your piece, Cold. Thank you. Somehow it helped. Less pressure on my heart of the human destructive insanity when it could be otherwise problem by knowing I'm not the only one that sees it? Not sure. As I write, it has started snowing again. I'm ready for some warm.
It’s a blunt report isn’t it. From a government agency. Did it get a second’s coverage in the UK I wonder?
Thanks Carlo for words that express what many of us are processing these days. What gives me hope aren’t the people who insist we can fix this, but those who can stay with the trouble, have worked through the grief you’re talking about, and come out the other side intact.
Next, they are committed to helping others on that journey.
And then they’re asking how we equip our children.
What also gives me hope is remembering that many Indigenous cultures have faced the end of the world as they knew it, and survived (and from whom we have so much to learn).
And I don’t disappear into a nihilist spiral because I don’t believe that our three score years and ten as carbon-based lifeforms on a small rock is the totality of our existence. The universe is so much more entangled, wonderful and loving. But it’s times like these that test my conviction.
Thank you for this post. It is one thing to make peace with the inevitability of our individual death. But the grief attached to the idea of the extinction of the living systems by which we sustain our own…is almost unmanageable. And yet, we do get up, make breakfast, and do what needs to be done. You are doing essential work. Brave work. Hats off to you.
This was powerful, like most of your writing. I do think there are many people out there who feel and think as you do, even if our media environment and general social arrangements work to make this less transparent. And well-intentioned initiatives and organizations all over the place attempting to connect the dots in the more systemic fashion you describe here, even if they seem to be a dime a dozen and not well-coordinated, so I tend to be skeptical. I wonder if you've heard of these folks? They strike me as more serious than most, though it's so hard to tell whether any of this stuff can make a difference:
I wrote 1000ish words this morning in my journal that expresses, in a very non linear messy way, what you wrote so articulately in your piece, Cold. Thank you. Somehow it helped. Less pressure on my heart of the human destructive insanity when it could be otherwise problem by knowing I'm not the only one that sees it? Not sure. As I write, it has started snowing again. I'm ready for some warm.
It’s a blunt report isn’t it. From a government agency. Did it get a second’s coverage in the UK I wonder?
Thanks Carlo for words that express what many of us are processing these days. What gives me hope aren’t the people who insist we can fix this, but those who can stay with the trouble, have worked through the grief you’re talking about, and come out the other side intact.
Next, they are committed to helping others on that journey.
And then they’re asking how we equip our children.
What also gives me hope is remembering that many Indigenous cultures have faced the end of the world as they knew it, and survived (and from whom we have so much to learn).
And I don’t disappear into a nihilist spiral because I don’t believe that our three score years and ten as carbon-based lifeforms on a small rock is the totality of our existence. The universe is so much more entangled, wonderful and loving. But it’s times like these that test my conviction.
As a librarian, you may also appreciate “What a Librarian is Reading in Times of Moral Nausea and Psychological Despair” https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/what-a-librarian-is-reading-in-times
Thank you for this post. It is one thing to make peace with the inevitability of our individual death. But the grief attached to the idea of the extinction of the living systems by which we sustain our own…is almost unmanageable. And yet, we do get up, make breakfast, and do what needs to be done. You are doing essential work. Brave work. Hats off to you.
This was powerful, like most of your writing. I do think there are many people out there who feel and think as you do, even if our media environment and general social arrangements work to make this less transparent. And well-intentioned initiatives and organizations all over the place attempting to connect the dots in the more systemic fashion you describe here, even if they seem to be a dime a dozen and not well-coordinated, so I tend to be skeptical. I wonder if you've heard of these folks? They strike me as more serious than most, though it's so hard to tell whether any of this stuff can make a difference:
https://systems-souls-society.com/
https://perspecteeva.substack.com/
https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/
Just heartcrack harrowing. A justifiably brutal eloquence.
Thanks for this. Well said.
How come you included New South Wales…? I thought you live in the US…?
because I live in Australia :)
So do I!
Nice!