tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969310683838059661.post464308100909129469..comments2023-03-23T08:25:43.056+01:00Comments on Confessions of a Climate Worrier: Mass ExtinctionJennie http://www.blogger.com/profile/09973829287451825554noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969310683838059661.post-79551630267717543262011-08-21T13:27:44.925+02:002011-08-21T13:27:44.925+02:00Blogstorff - The tar sands and pipeline issue are ...Blogstorff - The tar sands and pipeline issue are extremely important for the welfare of our planet. It's make or break here. I've donated both signature and money to environmental activists, but I fall short on physical action. I hope by adding my voice on the subject does something, anything. Otherwise, I feel it's just an exercise in futilism. <br /><br />I'm really glad to know you apprectiate my posts - both of you, and hopefully others. <br /><br />And thanks for the term psychologically polluted! Can you expound on it in this context?Jennie https://www.blogger.com/profile/09973829287451825554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969310683838059661.post-19648219352810109112011-08-21T11:20:51.854+02:002011-08-21T11:20:51.854+02:00The trailer doesn't really say anything else -...The trailer doesn't really say anything else - to me at last - that it's a film I like to see (thanks for link, Martin). So either escapism or the opposite. - And then: I will say that escapism is MTV, Disney, X-factor and the like. To work with climate in an ideological (and in a non-objective) way can be a start of making up a new reality. I don't think that's escapism. - And here's another action: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/19/299697/mckibben-on-tar-sands-action-the-largest-collective-act-of-civil-disobedience-in-the-history-of-the-climate-movement/#more-299697<br /><br />But that said: Thank you, Jennie, for a very honest and important post on your blog. - And still: The goal is to stay concerned about the climate (and not to escape the facts) and still be able to built up something else - and to stay out of being psychologicaly poluted.Blogstorffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17278875277173104308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969310683838059661.post-9732926351874082422011-08-14T23:43:02.277+02:002011-08-14T23:43:02.277+02:00I saw the trailer, thank you. Yes, it's escapi...I saw the trailer, thank you. Yes, it's escapism (do that myself!), but it's a necessary message. The message that people are not alone with this. If we felt all alone, truly, then that would be the end of us, right then and there. The only reason to keep on is knowing others are willing to work toward....something better than what we're doing now.Jennie https://www.blogger.com/profile/09973829287451825554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969310683838059661.post-67201405798582443372011-08-14T23:00:38.774+02:002011-08-14T23:00:38.774+02:00Hi Jennie. Oh God, I know that feeling so well - d...Hi Jennie. Oh God, I know that feeling so well - despeir and helplesness, seeing how the world is getting messed up by a bunch of greedy, stupid assholes. In March that feeling was so strong that I had to stop publishing the social activism magazine (http://jasna-polana.blogspot.com/) I was working on, because I had to drag my mind away from those issues. I stoped to see the light, if you will:)<br />Recently I start to come back to it, but I try a different approach - I combine my social and political views with a spiritual attitude. There is this amazing docummentary, which I connected very strongly with. It's made by a Canadian director (forgot his name), it's called "Fierce Light" and I recommend it to you wholeheartedly. Check the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5Qvv3UIEg<br />It helped me to get a more optimistic take on the whole activism thing. Or mybe I am just an escapist ;)marcinsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500749873538514647noreply@blogger.com