We seem to be stuck in a dangerous and destructive paradigm. Our current approach to climate change is painfully inadequate. Will shifting paradigms be easier if we start with a few small shakes?
Wonderful piece so poetically told. It’s hard to keep shouting into the void sometimes isn’t it! The Deja vu of what often feels like flogging a dead horse is rather painful. But we just have to hope the message gets through to enough people to make a difference.
When the SREX report came out the Occupy Movement was in full swing, as I recall. It felt like a hopeful moment for the climate movement right then. In the intervening years there have been several iterations of IPCC reports, each more alarming than the last. For a minute, it nearly seemed as if the world was actually waking up and ready to take climate change seriously. The Paris climate agreement felt like a lighthouse in the world fog. Then we all know what followed.
And now, at the brink of four years of methodical destruction of the climate guardrails put in place by the Biden administration, I am at an utter loss for words or even how to carry on with any semblance of hope. Grief, outrage, sorrow, terror, and other emotions come and go like ocean waves during the past 48 hours.
It's going to be a long road ahead for us all who love and wish to protect our beloved planet.
Looking very much forward to hearing the audio book today, and sharing your ideas forward (after hearing your session at the r.3.0 2024 annual conference (virtually) on tipping points, and collapse acceptance paradigms.
Thanks for these generous reflections and will be thrilled to get the audio version of your book and share it too. Although the beautiful illustrated print version connects on other levels too.
Wonderful piece so poetically told. It’s hard to keep shouting into the void sometimes isn’t it! The Deja vu of what often feels like flogging a dead horse is rather painful. But we just have to hope the message gets through to enough people to make a difference.
When the SREX report came out the Occupy Movement was in full swing, as I recall. It felt like a hopeful moment for the climate movement right then. In the intervening years there have been several iterations of IPCC reports, each more alarming than the last. For a minute, it nearly seemed as if the world was actually waking up and ready to take climate change seriously. The Paris climate agreement felt like a lighthouse in the world fog. Then we all know what followed.
And now, at the brink of four years of methodical destruction of the climate guardrails put in place by the Biden administration, I am at an utter loss for words or even how to carry on with any semblance of hope. Grief, outrage, sorrow, terror, and other emotions come and go like ocean waves during the past 48 hours.
It's going to be a long road ahead for us all who love and wish to protect our beloved planet.
Looking very much forward to hearing the audio book today, and sharing your ideas forward (after hearing your session at the r.3.0 2024 annual conference (virtually) on tipping points, and collapse acceptance paradigms.
Thanks for these generous reflections and will be thrilled to get the audio version of your book and share it too. Although the beautiful illustrated print version connects on other levels too.