Great newsletter Twilight. I am looking forward to checking out that book. It’s right up my alley. I like the new pushback section a lot and the brighter side snippets were inspiring and much needed. The media stories about the summer ahead have me very much on edge and feeling paralyzed. Here in the NW corner of the PNW, it barely rained all winter and the snowfall was dismal, and we get all of our water from one river. It’s been raining non stop in late May and I find myself pinging between selfishly wanting warm summer weather and being so so glad for the rain and the delay in needing to water the garden.
Thank you for highlighting this one! I honestly stay out of the climate book fray, because there's so little that helps us move away from the fear/survival instinct to the care and mutualism collective action. Gonna check this one out.
This was an interesting post and approach. Like every other anxiety...climate anxiety presents in a million different ways for a million different people. My own individual climate anxiety salve has been to educate myself and learn more (which is why I'm here commenting). And also to support people who are engaging in cimmunity-based regenerative agriculture (specifically I'm a fan of syntropic agroforestry, Roland Van Reenen the Forest Farmer specifically). I figure they have the best shot at making things better at least at the local level so someone (they) have a chance of surviving this mess (if not me). Finally, I usually have less anxiety after talking to friends living in areas that are really impacted by climate change right now, living (barely or not at all) thru drought followed by floods (thinking Brazil and Kenya). Not that I feel better when thinking of hearing of other people's plight, but it puts it all in perspective. Thanks for your article and the opportunity to comment and connect! Even posting here has tempered my climate anxiety!
Great newsletter Twilight. I am looking forward to checking out that book. It’s right up my alley. I like the new pushback section a lot and the brighter side snippets were inspiring and much needed. The media stories about the summer ahead have me very much on edge and feeling paralyzed. Here in the NW corner of the PNW, it barely rained all winter and the snowfall was dismal, and we get all of our water from one river. It’s been raining non stop in late May and I find myself pinging between selfishly wanting warm summer weather and being so so glad for the rain and the delay in needing to water the garden.
Thank you for highlighting this one! I honestly stay out of the climate book fray, because there's so little that helps us move away from the fear/survival instinct to the care and mutualism collective action. Gonna check this one out.
The questions she prompts us to ask ourselves are good ones--glad to add them to my climate-response approach.
This was an interesting post and approach. Like every other anxiety...climate anxiety presents in a million different ways for a million different people. My own individual climate anxiety salve has been to educate myself and learn more (which is why I'm here commenting). And also to support people who are engaging in cimmunity-based regenerative agriculture (specifically I'm a fan of syntropic agroforestry, Roland Van Reenen the Forest Farmer specifically). I figure they have the best shot at making things better at least at the local level so someone (they) have a chance of surviving this mess (if not me). Finally, I usually have less anxiety after talking to friends living in areas that are really impacted by climate change right now, living (barely or not at all) thru drought followed by floods (thinking Brazil and Kenya). Not that I feel better when thinking of hearing of other people's plight, but it puts it all in perspective. Thanks for your article and the opportunity to comment and connect! Even posting here has tempered my climate anxiety!