This is so real. I’ve reported on this over the years in many forms. Coral reef scientists. Conservationists caring for endlings. Public health workers in the pandemic. Journalists covering all the above. The people bearing witness are not okay.
So many of us are bearing witness. For anyone in doubt, Olafur Eliasson’s glacier melt series is on display in Brussels, and shows the changes in Iceland over just 20 years (1999-2019)
Thank you for seeing this and for being someone who bears witness. Having someone else acknowledge one’s moral injury & grief helps. Don’t Look Up captures this feeling of impotence within a culture of ignorance so well. While watching it mid-pandemic, my physician husband and I felt seen finally.
After teaching undergrad climate science classes for years, it became clear I only had one main message for these hopeful groups of 18yos: we know what's happening. We know what to do about it. And the people in power won't do it.
I started helping non-violent environmental activists in 90's with medical support (I'm a trauma psychiatrist). Even with successes such as Headwaters Forest, my peeps increasingly mourn what is disappearing before them...all too often exactly what they had warned of long before. Endling trauma.
What’s an endling?
I don’t disagree with either of you, but as @katharinehayhoe.com and Rebecca Solnit keep reminding us, we don’t have the luxury of being pessimistic about our future, because despair favors inaction.
Hi, from the preventing mass gender violence Cassandras. 🤦🏻🤷🏻😭
As an environmental scientist, I can confirm. It's a mix of anger and desolation. We did all we could, we got the data, we see the increasing signs, why don't they listen? And also, why they do not respect all the year I dedicated to this?
Yeah, I wrote a long text about the feeling. It often feels just too much to bear. bsky.app/profile/tire...
I wrote a text that is a bit too long, but I am angry and sad and it had to be done. It‘s about climate change, biodiversity loss and ecological grief. About frustration, about science and pain. 🌿👩🏻🔬🧪🌎 www.tiredmegafauna.com/articles/eco...
Life is not preceded by an invitation. We are not asked: Hey, do you want to come into the world? We just show up one day. Thrown into the world like that, we see the years pass and we grow from a b...