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I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the

I would like to try out simply using a - - here on to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/4

The idea is to create something that captures and helps record in all its different manifestations, large and small, throughout the world. We all (most of us) know it's happening, but it's so slow, so on and off, that it's often really hard to grasp. And whilst events are recorded, smaller changes, and how people experience them and how it affects their lives, is largely completely unrecorded, uncaptured. It would be good to try and do this, I feel 2/4

At the same time, a collective might also help emotionally - in the way that all diary writing helps to work through emotions, but also by sharing and connecting across the world, especially if you feel alone and isolated in thinking about climate in your own community and family. It might be quite therapeutic to be able to share and connect your thoughts and feelings

So let's try this! Use in your toot whenever you want to make a Climate Diary post, and 3/4

Pauline von Hellermann

if you feel like it, also follow the hashtag yourself. I will myself follow, search and re-toot all posts and can be a sort of hub, at least initially. And if it takes off, @bridgetmck and I have been discussing perhaps linking this with the Experiences project (check out the climate museum as a whole, it's really great) 4/4

climatemuseumuk.org/digital-mu

Climate Museum UKExploring the Earth CrisisBy bridgetmck

@bridgetmck 5/5 I am tagging a few of you now who I've already been talking to about this, or who might be interested, as well as people from different parts of the world. My network is still much less global than I would like, so if you could help spread, that would be really great! (see above thread) @wavesculptor @norcalgrandma@sfba.social @OnePlanet@home.social @mythopoetica @sy @clockwooork @bethsawin

@pvonhellermannn @wavesculptor @norcalgrandma@sfba.social @OnePlanet@home.social @mythopoetica @sy @clockwooork @bethsawin Maybe you could write a blogpost on Writers Rebel to reach writers who would welcome this.

@pvonhellermannn It's a great idea, it keeps going through my mind, is this the last time I'm going to observe this (snow)(sparrows)(etc)? And it's great to make it a collective space, we don't pay attention to the same things, we don't live in the same environment #ClimateDiary

@MarieVC thank you! No idea whether it will work but as it’s really so little effort i thought it’s definitely worth a try

@pvonhellermannn @bridgetmck Excellent (if depressing that it's necessary) initiative. I'm following the hashtag now and it's already got me thinking about the 'little' things I've noticed in daily life, locally (Denmark). 'Little' unnerving signs that we've accepted for want of knowing what to do about them. Like crocuses appearing in January.

@CiaraNi @bridgetmck thank you Ciara! Yes I saw some daffodils starting to bud a few weeks ago, which seemed far too early - though it also made me reflect on my lack of botanical/ecological knowledge, far too sporadic observation, and of course forever shifting baselines- so much to unpack but for now seems good to just record and share what we see (could be almost a bit of a project too though not qualified to run that!)

@bridgetmck @pvonhellermannn That nicely pinpoints what struck me especially about the initiative. It’s created a space for non-experts like me to share observations about niggling wee things that seem wrong based on lived experience. Some of them may turn out to be due to faulty memories (when a given flower buds) or naturally shifting baselines, others unfortunately real. It’s nice to have a collective space to share and to learn from other people’s observations elsewhere.

@CiaraNi @bridgetmck @pvonhellermannn I find a powerful and low effort way of understanding climate change as experienced by people, penetrating the “mundaneness” of environmental disaster. Making one notice the otherwise subtle. It reminds me of phenology, I was introduced to by Michelle Bastian. Phenology is an outsider branch of biology that observes and record plants seasonal cyclical relating to the climate. It is not only biologists who record but is a form of citizen science

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @bridgetmck thank you for all this, also the Barbara Adams book which i hadn’t heard of at all - just looked it up

@pvonhellermannn @CiaraNi @bridgetmck Likewise! And thank you both for this important initiative that has already sparked great conversations and connections.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn Robert Marsham, the founding father of phenology, Norfolk farmer, is one of the historical characters in my LARP walks that help us tap into the past to imagine greener futures for our city (Norwich). Being observant in diverse ways, and anticipatory, is one of the big themes in these sessions. Doing would be a great follow up activity for participants

@bridgetmck @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn The walk sounds fantastic! If I’m in the area in the future I will definitely look it up.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn Next one will be in April. Monthly walking group from then on. Or they can be booked by groups.

@CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn @bridgetmck In an article and an exhibition Nathalia Brichet/Frida Hastrup called climate change in Denmark a “mild apocalypse.” Many problematic things about the term but I somehow still like it.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @bridgetmck yes - i like it too as really thought-provoking. Abit along the lines of “slow violence”. Which i like too

@pvonhellermannn @CiaraNi @bridgetmck agreed. Slow violence is a generative and thought provoking concept. I am currently reading Barbara Adams amazing book “timescapes of modernity” published in 1998 where she argues along similar lines (almost identical at points at times). I find it much more interesting maybe because it’s less flashy. But again slow violence really conjures a specific and powerful image.

@pvonhellermannn @s_lundsteen @bridgetmck A mild apocalypse. Slow violence. Those are brilliant. Somehow more urgent and terrifying than more blatant terms.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn There’s also Alex Steffen’s term Transapocalypse but that’s less mild. It’s more saying ‘it could be coming for you wherever and whenever’. For example, rich people thinking New Zealand is safe but recent extreme weather is showing us otherwise.

@bridgetmck @s_lundsteen @CiaraNi i was just going to say this too - how for all of us it can suddenly switch from slow to very fast, explosive violence, like in . A friend who lives there just now for a year described how a cousin’s dream house (in a forest, all eco etc) was swept away in a landslide and now they are in a flat with massive insurance and financial problems - all gone. can capture all this too - not just about the mild and mundane, but all together

@pvonhellermannn I can do a simple blogpost today based on your posts here, on our EWS publication, if that would help? Unless you’d prefer to DIY? I can make you an author on the site if you have a Medium account.

@bridgetmck Hi Bridget, thank you so muxh for offering! I do have a medium account but a bit tied up today and this coming week, so if you do feel like doing a quixk one today that would be really good. But no worries at all if you don’t manage. I thought i could perhaps do one one or two weeks down the line, with extracts from the posts by other people? Thank you for your support, really appreciate it