Sadly I believe we will need a Ministry for the Future-scale event to truly induce societal and political change, and by then it will be far, far too late.
50 years of ecological overshoot and still it's getting worse every year. We are unable to acknowledge the fact that industrial civilization will fall.
It seems as though we've already normalized ourselves to nearly weekly weather events that take hundreds of lives now rather than the one or two they used to do not all that long ago. Too soon the toll exacted will be thousands and still we refuse to rise up and stop this. Good luck. Be well
There's anger also because it's becoming clear there was failure to warn the people of Valencia, and then a super slow, delayed response by the regional government, national guard and army. In other words, a shocking gap in preparedness. How could they be so slow to respond? It's crazy.
Yes, we don’t interface with reality on a level that is true to/in alignment with the deepest truth of ourselves, what we want, and the same for the true nature of others and the outer world. But I believe there are ways to remedy this..
On an individual level, the Spanish flooding broke my heart, I cried when I saw the news, I am kept up at night for fear of what is about to happen to the world.
Exactly. And this phenomenon is not new. Denial is the first step in the grief process. That we are collectively in denial is a symptom of us not wanting to move into the more intense feelings of grief. This is an emotional self defense - the charm of denial. BTW, in 2021 I made a sign for a climate rally asking, "HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT CLIMATE." We all need to be asking each other this now.
I propose that the problem stems, in part, from how our matrix of hyper-reality inures us to bad news. It's an emergency that should eclipse so much else...i know... but "so much else" is so deeply ingrained...
Problem : some of the people hurt personally by the event said that they were not particularly interested by climate change....(Read in Le Monde). What can we say ?
Climate Outreach has looked at how to help people recovering from disaster. What's more important in that state is a sense of community. If people see positive actions they can take for sustainability, maybe they will come around.
Responding with a public inquiry or Truth and Reconciliation commission seem exactly the wrong responses. Inquiries are notoriously long-winded processes which sideline urgent issues to a lawyerly enclave and make "recommendations" which are rarely enacted. T&R commissions ae typically designed to settle grievances between opposed sides following civil wars and the like - but the climate and nature crisis isn't that sort of situation. I'm afraid we have little alternative atm to direct action by the citizenry, collectively and individually, to refuse the logic of capital and destructive "growth"
Many people in the US don't believe it's happening. Those who do get gaslit constantly.
Good day to you too, Rupert & thank you. Shared 🕊
You are asking crucially important questions of us all Rupert
And especially of world, national and other kinds of leaders and opinion formers.
Sadly I believe we will need a Ministry for the Future-scale event to truly induce societal and political change, and by then it will be far, far too late.
Just finished the book, but I think it's too optimistic. Reality will be much worse.
A man jumps off the top of the Empire State Building and as he falls past the 10th floor says “so far it’s all good”.
Manufactured -consent- apathy
50 years of ecological overshoot and still it's getting worse every year. We are unable to acknowledge the fact that industrial civilization will fall.
It seems as though we've already normalized ourselves to nearly weekly weather events that take hundreds of lives now rather than the one or two they used to do not all that long ago. Too soon the toll exacted will be thousands and still we refuse to rise up and stop this. Good luck. Be well
There's anger also because it's becoming clear there was failure to warn the people of Valencia, and then a super slow, delayed response by the regional government, national guard and army. In other words, a shocking gap in preparedness. How could they be so slow to respond? It's crazy.
We do know why this emergency exists and is not being addressed. Human greed, ego, self-hatred, promoted distractions and a lack of compassion.
Yes, we don’t interface with reality on a level that is true to/in alignment with the deepest truth of ourselves, what we want, and the same for the true nature of others and the outer world. But I believe there are ways to remedy this..
On an individual level, the Spanish flooding broke my heart, I cried when I saw the news, I am kept up at night for fear of what is about to happen to the world.
It's terrifying
Increasing societal apathy is a symptom of desensitization.
Don’t look up.
Exactly. And this phenomenon is not new. Denial is the first step in the grief process. That we are collectively in denial is a symptom of us not wanting to move into the more intense feelings of grief. This is an emotional self defense - the charm of denial. BTW, in 2021 I made a sign for a climate rally asking, "HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT CLIMATE." We all need to be asking each other this now.
I propose that the problem stems, in part, from how our matrix of hyper-reality inures us to bad news. It's an emergency that should eclipse so much else...i know... but "so much else" is so deeply ingrained...
Problem : some of the people hurt personally by the event said that they were not particularly interested by climate change....(Read in Le Monde). What can we say ?
Climate Outreach has looked at how to help people recovering from disaster. What's more important in that state is a sense of community. If people see positive actions they can take for sustainability, maybe they will come around.
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Responding with a public inquiry or Truth and Reconciliation commission seem exactly the wrong responses. Inquiries are notoriously long-winded processes which sideline urgent issues to a lawyerly enclave and make "recommendations" which are rarely enacted. T&R commissions ae typically designed to settle grievances between opposed sides following civil wars and the like - but the climate and nature crisis isn't that sort of situation. I'm afraid we have little alternative atm to direct action by the citizenry, collectively and individually, to refuse the logic of capital and destructive "growth"