human/impact

I’ve found one tried-and-tested mindfulness exercise to be helpful here. Become consciously aware of your feet – of their position in space and their temperature, their contact with your footwear or the ground. Come out of your head for a moment, and especially out of other people’s heads. Here you are. Here. On the ground. Now: what feels like it

one hour per week spent making the planet a better place, and the rest having fun, is preferable to eight hours per day spent angrily or anxiously thinking about how things ought to be different.

Oliver Burkeman

But action is never taken from a zoomed-out position. This is the vantage point from which we gain perspective, research and analyse. The doing, the change making, the building and improving is done zoomed in on a micro scale.

Zooming in on the crisis interconnections map, each node is not a solid object but a malleable sphere growing and shrinking