Anfrage Mail
Hello supporter(s) of urgent mitigation of climate change,
As the cruel consequences (pandemic, fires, heat, drought, inundations) of our persistent climate and energy problems become more and more apparent, people are increasingly diametrically opposed in their day-to-day decision-making. A growing gap especially between: those who want to beef up the self-sufficiency capacity of their community (food, water, energy, care, education, shelter, waste reuse, crafts, workshops, local transport), and those who want to keep import, export, and transit functions running at full speed (traders, suppliers, export producers, infrastructure providers, transporters, dealers, ports) Their communication and joint imaging is an unfilled gap, which each of them is filling by constantly immersing themselves in the huge flow of web voices and images from all over the world full of news, sensations, seductions, inspirations, dreams, and innovations. But ducking away in virtual long-distance contacts is time-consuming and also frequently alienating because representations of issues elsewhere usually hide more than that they reveal, and doesn't help us much to get out of local dilemmas, especially now greenhouse gas emissions are becoming a razor-sharp criterion in shaping community plans, and licensing new projects. We are in danger of sealing us off versus each other, ending up in a power game. A clash without a merge.
A new paper ("Are we still holdin' on to life, or only to energy?") of our EU-based climate group depicts the current social situation from a more intimate emotional level of evaluation. You can find the paper here.
The resulting description may give all parties the feeling of living in the same reality, of playing the same game, and of being all in search of the same thing, but that the exceptional circumstances of the past 100 years (the energy tsunami in particular) have destabilised everyone's compass in a different way. If we can all just feel sad and pathetic about that now, each in one's own way, a lot has been gained for wanting to unify at a local level. Yes, there with your neighbors, fellow citizens and local farmers, we mean.
May the new year ease your burden, See you, Ina
Link adress = https://www.afwendbaarheid.nl/index.php/accru/are-we-holdin-on-to-life Criticism and questions welcome !