The decoupling of seasonal phenomena leading to migratory species arriving somewhere too early or too late to find food when they get there, or non-migratory species unable to adapt to changing conditions, are both a practical threat to human survival, and an existential threat to living on a planet that is home to other species... Continue Reading →
Deepening Resilience: Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. | Marble Crow
I feel the most prepared when I open myself to the possibility of disaster. It might sound fatalistic, but death positivity has done more to help make me an effective person than anything else. When I embrace the fact that everything is probably not going to be okay, when I can look in the face... Continue Reading →
My Resilience Will Not Be An Ableist Apocalypse — Pat Mosley, LMBT, Permaculture
Even as I’ve traded fear of a supernatural apocalypse for a whole range of emotions around our changed and still-changing climate, and even as I’ve begun to understand a nuanced critique of civilization in place of fearing its collapse, the fear of slow and painful, lonely death remains salient. Resolving this fear requires the practical:... Continue Reading →
What are we Afraid of? (Week 3) | The Thought Forge
I have felt grief and sadness at the growing loss of biodiversity, anger and betrayal at the inaction of governments and the greed of corporations, and definitely a fair amount of fear about the future. Because, let’s put this in context for a moment. I’m a millennial, and I’m 32 years old at the moment.... Continue Reading →
Deepening Resilience: Earth-based Responses to Climate Change 