https://youtu.be/UjDiL214zsA

#climatecafes #ecogrief #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #resilience #community

Joanna Macy taught us that we can be in awe at the same time with being desperately grieving for the state of the world.

Joy can coexist with grief.

This is what I am feeling now, while walking through this majestic city and thinking of the non human and human victims of the flood in Asia.

#ecogrief

More devastating news from Sri Lanka this time.

The elephants trying to rescue other animals make my heart melt.

I am so much in pain with the suffering I am reading about.

At least today I have a meeting with the other #climatecafes facilitators so I can share my pain with like-minded people.

#climateanxiety #ecogrief #grief #grieving

"Measuring Eco-anxiety, or Not: Examining scales and indices for trauma from environmental change"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202509/measuring-eco-anxiety-or-not
 
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress #EcoAnxiety #DRR #MenthalHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #PlanetaryHealth

Hope for the future

"I never thought I'd have to say this, but climate change is... not actually as bad as people are saying it is. That's not because it's got any less bad, it's because people have become so immoderate in their hyperbole that young people are growing up thinking the world will literally end during their lifetimes.

It's not the End Times. It's not Armageddon, it's not Ragnarok, it's not the Heat Death of the Universe. It's climate change."

#ClimateChange
#EcoGrief
#hope

The Story That Should Not Have Been:

This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..

We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.

And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.

We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.

We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.

The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.

Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.

Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.

Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.

And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.

So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?

It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.

But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:

Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.

Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.

#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism

#FyodorTyutchev #nature #metacrisis #biodiversity #ecogrief

#martinprechtel #metacrisis #ecoanxiety #mentalhealth #ecogrief

I'm walking through all my zines, because I love sharing them with people! Be sure to check out my eco-grief video ❤️

#zine #queer #lgbtq #death #deathdoula #ecogrief #grief #environment #climatechange

https://open.substack.com/pub/aqueerdeath/p/walking-through-my-what-is-eco-grief?r=4akm70&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Image description: An apple tree which has been severely pruned. Fig 202 from page 246 of "Botany for agricultural students" (1919), via Internet Archive by way of Flickr. Public domain.

Why this image? Read on...

#EcoGrief #music #trees

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
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Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-challenge-of-loss/
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

The sound of a mourning male koala hugging a deceased female koala. The roar of traffic is all around them.>>
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9nN2RzEfzEQ
#cars #roads #LoggingImpacts #koalas #mourning #EcoGrief #loss #environment #destruction #extinction #BiodiversityCrisis

Land Body Ecologies, a research network which I am privileged to be part of, has just launched a book: ‘Stories of #Solastalgia’, presenting experiences across the #Arctic, #India, #Kenya, #Sápmi, #Thailand, #Uganda, and the #UK.
 
https://www.waterstones.com/book/stories-of-solastalgia/land-body-ecologies//9781913546915
 
#LBEStories #LandBodyEcologies #SolastalgiaStories #ClimateGrief #ClimateHope #ClimateInspiration #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration #Indigenous

@geomar_en @senta_wolfsberg @awi I feel you! #EcoGrief

Themed triplet for #SundaySentence

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." Aldo Leopold #AldoLeopold

"When you teach your children to love the Earth and love nature, you’re also teaching them to experience pain." Severn Cullis-Suzuki

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson #AlfredLordTennyson

#ecogrief #ecology #quote

The Great Barrier Reef
"Bleached coral as far as the eye could see...Some reef guides are themselves suffering “ecological grief”. If the reef dies, then we die. We’re the early warning system for what’s going on on the planet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/23/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-tourism-impact
#TheGreatBarrierReef #FossilFuels #EcoGrief

Meeting 1 - habitat destruction of endangered species A

Meeting 2 - habitat destruction of endangered species B

Meeting 3 - group upset about legislation prohibiting harm to endangered species

Meeting 4 - see Meeting 2

Meeting 5 - see Meeting 2

Meeting 6 - dealing with human drama

My day. Everyday (almost). Pushing so hard to keep some space in this world for things not human against walls that keep closing in. It's exhausting. #sisyphus #ecogrief

#Environmental #Magic: Fun and action can overcome #ClimateAnxiety and #EcoGrief.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202402/environmental-magic-supports-mental-health
 
#ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoStress #ClimateStress #DRR

“Programs…aimed at improving a community’s climate resilience must factor in mental health.” Read from NPQ’s Alison Stine on The State of #MentalHealth Support in Climate Emergencies: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-state-of-mental-health-support-in-climate-emergencies/ #climatejustice #healthjustice #climatechange #WorldMentalHealthDay #ecogrief

Has anyone here ran and Environmental Grief Circle before?

We are doing a series of them at the library and I'd apreciate suggestions folks might have.

If you're in STC and interested in coming out, DM me and I'll send you the registration link.

#EcoGrief #EcoAnxeity #Solastalgia #SpeciesLonliness #Peer2PeerSupport #MentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateGrief #PreTSD #PreTSS #ClimateAnxeity #STC #StCatharines #Niagara #libraries #SolarPunk