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Related: About this forumAs the Climate Collapses, We Ask: "How Then Shall We Live?"
https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-climate-collapses-we-ask-how-then-shall-we-live/As the Climate Collapses, We Ask: How Then Shall We Live?
This is the first installment of a monthly series by Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil, entitled, How, Then, Shall We Live? Finding Our Way and Peace of Heart Amidst Global Collapse.
Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house.
Izumi Shikibu
.snip
What we have to share is written on a carrier wave of love for what we cherish. That love, moving outwards into the world through us, is the moonlight. What we write here is for those with the kamikaze courage to take in the facts of intensifying climate chaos, growing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, growing fascism, a global debt bubble and extinction scenarios that are already coming through the front door. It is for those who are feeling the implications of these in the pit of our stomachs, even before the radical changes needed in our personal and collective lives dawn fully into awareness.
It is for those who, given all that is collapsing, are risking treasured images of the future, and venturing into conversations about adaptation rather than just mitigation. It is for those who are tiptoeing into the unthinkable with a question on their lips: How then shall we live? Or maybe more pointedly, How then shall I live?
We may (or may not) be a step or two ahead of you, down the path of accepting the likely demise of the biosphere, which exposes the lie of invincibility of Western civilization. We have learned that finding ways to take action, even in the smallest ways, staves off depression and cynicism.
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As the Climate Collapses, We Ask: "How Then Shall We Live?" (Original Post)
saidsimplesimon
Feb 2019
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NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)1. We won't...or more to the point You won't...
...during the population reset in this Gaia petri dish.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)3. Are you a gamer?
Your response was much appreciated.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)5. Let's just say...
...I don't play games of chance.
And you are welcome.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)2. This article touches me deeply
Dahr has traveled the same road I have, has seen the same things, had the same thoughts and feelings I have, and has come to the same conclusions.
The depth of our global crisis requires a new understanding of what hope means.
The answer is now personal, the call to action uniquely individual and vastly diverse. Do what you feel is right, share and connect with others, and destiny will take care of itself.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)4. Great advise, thanks jackalope