#ecogrief — Public Fediverse posts

Tomorrow my conversation with M from the Last fireflies, is going to be released.

Stay tuned!

#ecogrief #climatemigration #activism #earthgrief
#disenfranchised_grief #climatecollapse #podcast

"Dépaysement: #MentalHealth Impacts as the Environment Changes - alienated and displaced from home: Mental impacts of #EnvironmentalChange."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202603/depaysement-mental-health-impacts-as-the-environment-changes

#dépaysement #depaysement #solastalgia #EcoAnxiety #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration

https://youtu.be/UjDiL214zsA

#climatecafes #ecogrief #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #resilience #community

https://youtu.be/UjDiL214zsA

#climatecafes #ecogrief #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #resilience #community

https://youtu.be/UjDiL214zsA

#climatecafes #ecogrief #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #resilience #community

https://youtu.be/UjDiL214zsA

#climatecafes #ecogrief #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #resilience #community

Joanna Macy taught us that we can be in awe at the same time with being desperately grieving for the state of the world.

Joy can coexist with grief.

This is what I am feeling now, while walking through this majestic city and thinking of the non human and human victims of the flood in Asia.

#ecogrief

More devastating news from Sri Lanka this time.

The elephants trying to rescue other animals make my heart melt.

I am so much in pain with the suffering I am reading about.

At least today I have a meeting with the other #climatecafes facilitators so I can share my pain with like-minded people.

#climateanxiety #ecogrief #grief #grieving

"Measuring Eco-anxiety, or Not: Examining scales and indices for trauma from environmental change"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202509/measuring-eco-anxiety-or-not
 
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress #EcoAnxiety #DRR #MenthalHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #PlanetaryHealth

Hope for the future

"I never thought I'd have to say this, but climate change is... not actually as bad as people are saying it is. That's not because it's got any less bad, it's because people have become so immoderate in their hyperbole that young people are growing up thinking the world will literally end during their lifetimes.

It's not the End Times. It's not Armageddon, it's not Ragnarok, it's not the Heat Death of the Universe. It's climate change."

#ClimateChange
#EcoGrief
#hope

The Story That Should Not Have Been:

This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..

We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.

And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.

We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.

We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.

The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.

Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.

Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.

Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.

And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.

So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?

It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.

But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:

Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.

Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.

#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism

#FyodorTyutchev #nature #metacrisis #biodiversity #ecogrief

#martinprechtel #metacrisis #ecoanxiety #mentalhealth #ecogrief

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
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Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-challenge-of-loss/
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

The sound of a mourning male koala hugging a deceased female koala. The roar of traffic is all around them.>>
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9nN2RzEfzEQ
#cars #roads #LoggingImpacts #koalas #mourning #EcoGrief #loss #environment #destruction #extinction #BiodiversityCrisis

Land Body Ecologies, a research network which I am privileged to be part of, has just launched a book: ‘Stories of #Solastalgia’, presenting experiences across the #Arctic, #India, #Kenya, #Sápmi, #Thailand, #Uganda, and the #UK.
 
https://www.waterstones.com/book/stories-of-solastalgia/land-body-ecologies//9781913546915
 
#LBEStories #LandBodyEcologies #SolastalgiaStories #ClimateGrief #ClimateHope #ClimateInspiration #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration #Indigenous

@geomar_en @senta_wolfsberg @awi I feel you! #EcoGrief

#Environmental #Magic: Fun and action can overcome #ClimateAnxiety and #EcoGrief.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202402/environmental-magic-supports-mental-health
 
#ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoStress #ClimateStress #DRR

Has anyone here ran and Environmental Grief Circle before?

We are doing a series of them at the library and I'd apreciate suggestions folks might have.

If you're in STC and interested in coming out, DM me and I'll send you the registration link.

#EcoGrief #EcoAnxeity #Solastalgia #SpeciesLonliness #Peer2PeerSupport #MentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateGrief #PreTSD #PreTSS #ClimateAnxeity #STC #StCatharines #Niagara #libraries #SolarPunk

The online #Sabbat rituals I started during the COVID lockdowns continue to be an important part of my offerings. Last night we gathered on Zoom for #Samhain to honor our beloved dead. During our ritual we paused to reflect on whole species who have disappeared into the ancestral realm due to the #ExtinctionCrisis because our #EcoGrief needs to be acknowledged and shared.

My "Zoom altar" is shared with a 2nd camera.

#samhain2023 #pagan #druid #wicca #ecospirituality #ancestorwork

It is no longer possible for me to make "normal" #art. The #exhibition of my #BiodiversityShrines is meant to be #activism but also to encourage people to change their perspective through the #sciFi #fiction #storytelling. For me, it was a project to learn to deal with my #EcoGrief. And it's a hell of a lot of fun! In #Alsace with a QR code leading to the #virtualVisit in Fr/En/De: ▶️ https://www.cronenburg.net/reliquaires/ You'll see moss! #biodiversity #climateActivism #biodiversityLoss #butterflies #mosstodon

This is the hardest time of year for me to get out and exercise, not because it's cold and dark, but because it's emotionally heavy. It is summer's end, the final harvest, #Scorpio season, the season of #grief in a society that generally doesn't do grief well. I got out for a run anyway, with the dying leaves, dragging some joy out from within, working on Sunday's sermon about #AllSoulsDay in my head.

#Running #runnersofmastodon #pagan #EcoGrief #samhain #Halloween

I also acknowledged that turtle rehab season has extended well past Labor Day the past couple of years and, due to our changing climate, probably will never go back to the schedule I'd gotten used to. It's a small thing for me, one person, to have to schedule my life differently, but there are many small things affecting many beings.

#ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #EcoGrief

One of my grad school classes is on eco-emotions. This module we were working with grief and our assignment was to create a ritual around someone or something we were mourning. I buried the two turtles I lost this week and mourned all the beings I couldn't save this year.

#WildlifeRehabilitation #wildlife #turtle #grief #EcoGrief #emotions

Second semester of grad school starts today. Classes on the emotional impact of the ecological crisis and spiritual activism. First round of book buying done. Endless hours of reading and paper writing begin now.

#SpiritualEcology #EcoGrief #SpiritualActivism #CIIS #EcologySpiritualityAndReligion

#ClimateDiary Finding myself just completely overwhelmed by grief at the moment about what we* have done to the world, and what the world is losing.

I keep on thinking about not just people but animals and plants everywhere suffering and dying in silence, entirely innocent in all this. And just want to say sorry to all, the whole time.

*"We" here not meaning all of humanity. But I do include myself amongst those who I hold responsible. From rich North, Gen X, etc.

#EcoGrief #EcoGuilt

@breadandcircuses Thank you for the links; it is a topic of growing importance!
In one of my #podcast episodes of #NatureMatchCuts, I tried to think about how to bring #EcoGrief and #hope together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-01-ep-05-she-dies-in-beauty-why-you-can-feel/id1630784381?i=1000591777971 #ReconnectingWithNature

"Land Body Ecologies: A case study for global #transdisciplinary collaboration at the intersections of environment and #MentalHealth".
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100206
By the Invisible Flock and Land Body Ecologies collective.
 
Exciting #ecoaction #ecohope #inspiration for addressing #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #ClimateStress #Solastalgia.
 
#DRR #adaptation #climateadaptation #cca #climatechangeadaptation #disasterriskreduction #disasterisk #environmentalism

I worked hard today because my best wishes for you come as sound ▶️ https://anchor.fm/naturematchcuts/episodes/Season-01-Ep-05-She-Dies-In-Beauty-Why-You-Can-Feel-Both-Eco-Grief-And-Hope-e1sueft

Join me for a very special #RestrictedArea with a dying #tree and a paradise for #birds. A very personal episode of how to deal with #EcoGrief and feel #awe, #oneness and #interconnectedness with #nature

Wishing you all the best!

#HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve #NewYear #newyearsresolution #NatureMatchCuts #podcast
(just published, takes some time to reach all apps)

A huge dead #tree lay naturally fallen in the #forest today. It had been dead for many years and hollowed out by #mushrooms, #woodpeckers and other animals. There is a quiet dignity around its crown.

And vibrant life. Birds peck insects and small rodents seek shelter from the cold. The time of #soillife has come and that of #mosses and #lichens.
#deadwood

In my next podcast episode (coming on New Year's Eve), I want to talk about #ecoGrief and how I find #comfort in #nature. #NatureMatchCuts