An absolutely excellent question in a collapsing world:
"Tell me, is it still OK to be happy?" @collapse2050
It's ok to be happy, but it's much harder. And as Sarah suggests, happiness in #collapse has a lot to do with meaning & purpose. #justcollapse
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Thomas Malthus was not wrong; he was merely premature. We did not permanently defeat the iron laws of ecology with our intellectual brilliance. We merely stumbled upon fossil fuels and mistook our staggering inheritance for our own genius.
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@violin4all I like their philosophy, too. My grandmother had peach trees & made jam. I thought of her & our tree convo when reading an article by @collapse2050 on her web page titled Reclaiming Sanity in an Insane World. There’s a section on gardening. https://t.co/M9v4Zhq3JG
great post on the cognitive dissonance of living with collapse awareness as you show up for work to pay the bills..
..& in my case, the cognitive dissonance of caring for homeless folks while "my" country deliberately traumatizes & homelessizes folks in palestine, lebanon, iran
"You are asking yourself how you can possibly keep doing this. You possess the leaden conviction that the systems sustaining our civilisation are in terminal decline, yet you must continue to feign enthusiasm for bullshit meetings with bullshit people about bullshit problems."
"According to leading climate scientists, the risks are profound: Impending multi-regional crop failures will drive severe spikes in global food prices, while lethal marine heatwaves threaten to wipe out vital ocean ecosystems… The crisis is imminent."
#SuperElNino#FoodSupply
@mark_slapinski Simulations from the cold war demonstrated that any use of nuclear weapons triggers rapid, uncontrollable escalation. As the old guard of the Cold War passes away, sound strategic foresight is being replaced by political grandstanding.
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