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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 #ClimateCrisis
I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon 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 #ClimateChange 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 #ExtremeWeather 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 #ClimateDiary 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 #ClimateDiary in your toot whenever you want to make a Climate Diary post, and 3/4
if you feel like it, also follow the #ClimateDiary hashtag yourself. I will myself follow, search and re-toot all #ClimateDiary 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 #ClimateMuseum #ExtremeWeather Experiences project (check out the climate museum as a whole, it's really great) 4/4
https://climatemuseumuk.org/digital-museum/exploring-the-planetary-emergency/
@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 @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 #NewZealand. 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. #ClimateDiary can capture all this too - not just about the mild and mundane, but all together