Scientists grieving for the earth

[Jude Iam]

those who know most are mourning. i've been crying for decades, moved by species going extinct and oceans dying, forests cut, jungles razed. onwards, action is the only balm, jude

Mourning Our Planet: Climate Scientists Share Their Grieving Process

I have been researching and writing about anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) for Truthout for the past year, because I have long been deeply troubled by how fast the planet has been emitting its obvious distress signals.

On a nearly daily basis, I've sought out the most recent scientific studies, interviewed the top researchers and scientists penning those studies, and connected the dots to give readers as clear a picture as possible about the magnitude of the emergency we are in.

This work has emotional consequences: I've struggled with depression, anger and fear. I've watched myself shift through some of the five stages of grief proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. I've grieved for the planet and all the species who live here, and continue to do so as I work today.

I have been vacillating between depression and acceptance of where we are, both as victims - fragile human beings – and as perpetrators: We are the species responsible for altering the climate system of the planet we inhabit to the point of possibly driving ourselves extinct, in addition to the 150 to 200 species we are already driving extinct daily.

Can you relate to this grieving process?
...

Continues here: https://www.truth-out.org/news/item/...ieving-process

[hearthstone]

There is no need to grieve!

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
(R. Buckminster Fuller - https://bfi.org/about-bfi/updates/20...ntdown-begins/ )

One can--and eventually must--decide that a fate is an inadequate substitute for a future.
(Umair Haque - https://twitter.com/umairh/status/168374310837305344 )

Designing the Earth Anew Together - www.ModelEarth.Org

First we have to agree, together, on what kind of world we want to share,
and then, together, we can strive for, and achieve it!

Thank you, Mr. Jan Hearthstone.

those who know most are mourning. i've been crying for decades, moved by species going extinct and oceans dying, forests cut, jungles razed. onwards, action is the only balm, jude

Mourning Our Planet: Climate Scientists Share Their Grieving Process
...

Continues here: https://www.truth-out.org/news/item/...ieving-process