2/2 - democracy, climate, peace - is not even the right question: it will all happen all together, with so much good community and truth and art always there too. That’s what it will be, or in fact is already: we are living it now. And all along, always also incredible small wonders like these dandelions when i had to stop to apply more sunlotion and drink water, along the (loud) A259 on way home.
#CollapseDiary
#ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary yesterday i went to a wonderful, idiosyncratic May day event with poetry, art and music in the South Downs. It made us all feel so connected to each other and the sussex landscape.
But it was also incredibly, incredibly hot: I barely made it home and am still exhausted. Not ‘normal’ for 1st May.
Now waking up to the news that #Reform have won the Runcorn byelection. Making me wonder again about how it’s all going to unfold - what will “go” first 1/2
I stood on top of a very tall building last night looking out over a city. The red and white stripes of stalled highways, the other towers speculation pulls up through the sky. I kept thinking “this is Atlantis.” And when I said it no one knew what the fuck I was talking about.
I have wandered into non collapse-aware discussions and it is very disorienting
This piece by Ernesto van Peborgh is more or less where I am at on all this - #RegenerativeAnthropology and all. One particular point I liked: he uses the term #Metacrisis instead of #polycrisis, to capture that it’s all one big crisis. I agree, it’s better. Will use it too from now on
(And yes, it’s on Substack. I didn’t put it there. I am aware Substack is part of the problem. Feel free to just not open it).
#ClimateDiary I am so pleased to hear @muellertadzio’s book might be coming out in English next year! We csn do an online #ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary reading group event perhaps, or even a Mastodon book launch? 😊
https://climatejustice.social/@muellertadzio/113629512475230509
7th Dec 2024
Conversation with daughter's friend in kitchen this morning
Me: what are your plans today?
F: we were going to Sovereign but we are not anymore
Me: oh, is that because of the storm? good idea (#StormDarragh)
F: no, because it's shut
The Sovereign swimming pool was always a bit grim, but this is the second public swimming pool closing in Eastbourne and now we have none, only private ones.
@cthon1c ! #CollapseDiary! I shall adopt this too. I used #TheCrumble a few times, but Callapse Diary from now on
Yesterday I planted goji berries, at the northern limit of their range, so whoever is living here, or the birds, will always have them
this is what I feel all the time but didn’t have words for:
“I would rather live every day in a crisis than pretend every day is not already a crisis.”
#ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary #Asheville
From: @cbmilstein
https://kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/113241239157362877
As advertised, a year to the day after what the weather service calls The Great Vermont Flood of 2023, the remains of deeply anomalous #HurricaneBeryl came up this way, found a mass of unusually supersaturated air, of course lots of extra heat in the warmest year ever, and then got squeezed out like a giant wet rag along an east-west line between two fronts converging across far upstate New York and northern Vermont. Details are just coming in but there are already lots of repeat customers for destroyed town and city centers, bridges and roads, fields and farms.
“I honestly don't know how Barre will recover from two devastating floods in one year”
https://matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2024/07/another-big-flood-disaster-crushes.html
#VTwx #VermontFlood #VermontFlooding #ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary
Next question related to the potential second-annual 100-year deluge: can I get four cords of firewood stacked before the rain starts in 36 hours? (No silly of course not, I have to make myself useful to our dying economic world-system)
“Most states take three to five years to recover from a disaster of this size.”
What happens when the disasters come every year? 🤔
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