Oh the ghosts. Lots of great information and moving language. Thank you. I have a sense that the people around me are waking up to all the ghosts whispering in the shadows and all the possible ghosts we are in the process of creating, but that their imagination for what they can actually do about our destruction lags behind the awakening. People I talk to are still into plastic bags and Priuses, and value individual actions like recycling over joining the work of organizations aimed at large scale institutional and structural change. From that pov I am all for your focusing soon on action.
Beautifully said, Kathleen. Thank you for your insight. I'd like to think awareness of the losses is growing, but if so it's happening even as we generally grow more distant from the community of life. The tension between the value of individual action and the necessity of structural change is fascinating, and something I'll dig into sometime, but yes, the civilizational shift is what really matters. On we go...
Oh the ghosts. Lots of great information and moving language. Thank you. I have a sense that the people around me are waking up to all the ghosts whispering in the shadows and all the possible ghosts we are in the process of creating, but that their imagination for what they can actually do about our destruction lags behind the awakening. People I talk to are still into plastic bags and Priuses, and value individual actions like recycling over joining the work of organizations aimed at large scale institutional and structural change. From that pov I am all for your focusing soon on action.
Beautifully said, Kathleen. Thank you for your insight. I'd like to think awareness of the losses is growing, but if so it's happening even as we generally grow more distant from the community of life. The tension between the value of individual action and the necessity of structural change is fascinating, and something I'll dig into sometime, but yes, the civilizational shift is what really matters. On we go...