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100 degrees in the Arctic Circle.
I try not to share terrible things without a recommendation for how to respond. Some principles & methods are here in @jtbrg's article http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/degrowth052020update.pdf & in the Red Deal which she references. http://therednation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf
I try not to share terrible things without a recommendation for how to respond. Some principles & methods are here in @jtbrg's article http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/degrowth052020update.pdf & in the Red Deal which she references. http://therednation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf
A bunch of you who follow me here started doing so thru my invitations to build a vocabulary for talking about climate change & translating feeling into communication, communication & imagination into action. Feeling the insufficiency of that work today--which is important info!
People have been writing & speaking for some time now about the intimate intertwining of white supremacy & ecocide, & also the intertwining of a free life & a livable planet, & they are right!
1 other thing I think living in alignment w/an ecosystem has in common w/abolition is that many ppl living now have never experienced either. We only know the devils we know, even when we know they're devils. Which means some of us have never lived ANY version that works well.
The two writings I noted at the beginning of this thread offer some examples of & pathways to livable realities, familiar to the ppl who've lived them but maybe not to you, & requiring sustained intention, effort & risk. It's hard to leap AND proceed methodically at the same time
It's hard to build with one hand & tear down w/the other, knowing that in tearing down you will have to tear away parts of yourself, * knowing that what you build may not even "work." May not save you, or the people you love, or the plants you eat, or the oceans you breathe with.
Another reason to listen to people who are doing those things *anyway* is that they sometimes do find joy in the doing, & healing, & pride, that they once got (or tried & failed to get) from other, more extractive sources.
Bc things are so dire, the effort needed is so great, & the result so uncertain, that's what I'm holding to now: the possibility that the doing, itself, will sometimes feel all right. My wish for you is to find something to hold to that pulls you onward into shaping change.
