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I would like to submit article from time to time
what is the best way to do that?
John James
All you do is email them to us at info@ecologicalinternet.org
Can we talk?
I am afraid to even bring up the topic of climate change or any other environmental concern when among family or friends. Worse, facebook sites for environmental causes do not fare so well. Even the people who created the "groups" on facebook, do not attend the group or contribute to "discussions" there. My "friends" have said they do not feel about the issues as I do. More than it bothers me to be a social out caste, it makes me painfully aware of just how many need to get on board.
Imagine you are doing a prudent 50 MPH down a highway, suddenly you see an abyss right in front of you. Of course you hit the breaks, hard! And the car does not stop, it can not; it takes the car 50 miles to stop, no matter if we stand on the breaks. That car is going down!
NOW, the car is us driving climate change, the abyss is the tipping point, or the point where earth driven forces take over and nothing man can or will do will matter. Surely we should, at the very least, be talking about it! We haven't even hit the breaks yet!
We are facing walls on so many fronts: population continues out of control, natural ecosystems such as old growth or rain forests are being destroyed just when we need them most, our oceans are dieing, many lands are becoming deserts, food is short, wars abound, oil production peaked (I think / because of the loony lengths we will go to to acquire the stuff!), the wild life that made this place so rich is being extinguished. OZONE, remember that one, it ain't fixed yet! (Not by a long shot.), our own chemicals are everywhere and toxic, even our economy was not sustainable! The consumer (you and me) could not endlessly purchase trivia in order to support a corporate upper class that depends on ever increasing profits to sustain share holders and "growth", everyone wants to grow, needed or not! We don't need endless growth, we need sustainable growth to move forward. We need it now. Because dead species have no economy and zero growth potential!
The environment and global warming are a primary concern for the average person. It must be so, for the economy, for justice and for a future, (of any kind , at this point)
So, can we talk?
Jennifer, I have had remarkably similar experiences. Can you email me directly at glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org . The ability of humans to deny personal and societal problems is amazing, even in family members that say they love us when we intervene with reality. Please, let's email. Or add me as a friend on facebook and we can talk personally.
Jennifer reading your piece reminds me of a poster I did that had an image of lemmings rushing over a cliff with an individual in the middle being carried along despite holding up a placard saying warning of the situation ahead.
My feeling is it is necessary to step out a bit of the rush and in doing so not be carried along in quite the same way. In doing so one also can create a stiller centre around which not only can one gather oneself, but also others can gather, and together dream deeper into positive actions a counterbalance to "business as usual."
Three particular positive movements come to mind to offer that you might find merit in connecting with alongside the connections you are already making here. Through these one can connect and find others interested in facing the situation, and in doing that finding greater courage and energy to start generating solutions...
The first is the Transition Town movement (check out www.transitiontowns.org), and the other two can be connected to either seperately or within that: One is permaculture, an evolving system of ethical design taking nature as its guide, and particularly Joanna Macy's "work that reconnects". This branch grew out of her seminal work "despair and empowerment in a nuclear age" and is rooted in deep ecology and a profound study of our fears and social change, those things which block us from facing a situation so moving towards appropriate positive response to it. Reading that may well help understand the things that are preventing people looking at the situation and discover approaches that will enable them to. One insight I gained from it, a psychotherapy training, and perhaps most importantly personal experience, is that it can be hard for people to change until they are heard for where they are...as often there are many good reasons for what people are doing, which meet more immediate needs and fears. Obviously there can be a time where the ecological circumstances will eclipse/take urgent precedence over those needs, but for some until that point, unless they realise themselves that those needs/fears are empty/self destructive, or that they can be met in a far healthier manner (hence the need to start generating positive alternatives) many folks will carry on business as usual...
To an extent consumption patterns are rooted in insecurity, the more content you are the less you need...causes and conditions have played a part in creating this great insecurity. To an extent there have been some who felt this played into their intersts...the creation of a consumer versus a celebration of a more self-reliant community and circumstance..This is part of what has to be addressed, both the insecurity, and a return to the conditions that create less of it...
with good wishes
Jeremy Thres