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The Pall Of Our Unrest
“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl
... See moreThe interweaving of personal and planetary losses has left many of us feeling uncertain, anxious, and ultimately heartbroken. Our broken hearts have the potential to open us to a wider sense of identity,
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Any news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Our personal experiences of loss and suffering are now bound inextricably with dying coral reefs, melting polar caps, the silencing of languages,
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
When a culture chooses to believe anything that is not human can be property—a “resource” to burn, bulldoze, bastardize, pimp, torture, enslave, exterminate—this leads to the aggressive destruction of entire ecosystems, including old-growth forests, grasslands, wetlands, deserts, waterways, and other essential habitat. This destruction is speeding
... See moreJulie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
“If we aren’t able to set aside some personal freedoms to keep a million or more people from dying needlessly from a novel virus, and to keep our health care system from imploding, then heaven help us when climate change hits and the economy crumbles due to our hitting a series of environmental limits.”55