“We are in an age of climate change and mass extinction and much of this is irreversible. This is…”

Thursday, July 24th, 2014

“We are in an age of climate change and mass extinction and much of this is irreversible. This is what we were given to live through. To be able to look at what the human machine is doing to this living world without feeling grief or despair is an impossibility for anyone who experiences normal human emotions. Grief is not only a natural reaction to the state of the world today, it is a useful one. It is something that should be navigated and understood and accepted and discussed. Like the death of a loved one, the current death of much that is good in the world is something that can’t be denied or wished away: it has to be lived with. It doesn’t follow from that that nothing good will ever happen again, or that you can be of no use in the world.”

paulkingsnorth, Five years on a Mountain

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“But there is a space between hope and despair, which it is necessary to inhabit.”

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

“But there is a space between hope and despair, which it is necessary to inhabit.”

paulkingsnorth, Five years on a Mountain

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I’m one of the people for whom the Dark Mountain manifesto…

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

I’m one of the people for whom the Dark Mountain manifesto really resonates. Paul and Dougald are saying things that I’ve been thinking to myself for a number of years, but bringing it out into the open turns out to be really helpful for making sense of it and finding a way forward.

The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.

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