Recent searches
Search options
#ClimateDiary My daughter drew this hour glass and stuck it on her window a few years ago, at the height of my and her climate activism, with @parents4future and all.
Now it’s all faded, and in many ways time has already run out. 1/2
#ClimateDiary 2/2 I have been struggling in recent months with feeling really hope- and helpless regarding climate action (and much else). But now feel that there is also strength in this realisation, so much still that we can do for each other and the world even when the bigger picture is incredibly bleak. Then yesterday listened to @DarkOptimism talking about #DarkOptimism - and this term captures it perfectly. Thank you, Shaun!
https://www.ecogather.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future
@pvonhellermannn @parents4future
Time likely ran out many decades ago, should it make you feel any better
@pvonhellermannn
Ah, absolutely my pleasure Pauline.
This short piece perhaps best sums up the strength that I too find in the realisation:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2013/01/20/the-secret-truth-behind-environmentalists/
My late friend #MichaelDowd called it the 'post doom' space, which is another term I love. If of interest, here's our very first conversation — I guess it's #postdoom meeting #darkoptimism and, perhaps unsurprisingly, finding we had a lot in common..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR0C8h7go40
@DarkOptimism Thank you for sharing this - haven’t finished listening yet, but so much that resonates already. And yes, i am not surprised that that 2013 piece gets picked up so often. I had of course also come across the revolution vs within system debate, but had only answered it with: we need both everything-everywhere-all-at-once; your point, that both are right and that this means that we will not “fix” this, is really good, really clarifies
things.
@pvonhellermannn @DarkOptimism It's Zen a.f. Thank you.
Thank you Pauline
@pvonhellermannn for your post, I am struggling so much to find hope right now, as our leaders continue to turn a blind eye to the #ClimateCrisis
Also thank you for introducing us to the great fountain of hope
@DarkOptimism
I've been reading Jane Goodall's Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times this summer, which is also a good antedote
@StingrayBadger @pvonhellermannn
"The great fountain of hope" — gosh!! 
Thank you for that!
@pvonhellermannn @parents4future
people w kids are in a v tough spot. you can't really shrug in the face of what's happening.
i didnt have kids & i'm getting old/er. so i have no real stake inthe future & i no longer see the point in worrying about it. i sort of look at it now with the fascination of a detached scientist. it's amazing & awful what we've done, & things will get CRAZY
i wont start eating meat again or buy a car. but i'm done fretting over something i'll never be able to change