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Climate MigrantThe podcast is out. It's available in several platforms but I share the link from Libsyn.
In this [Campfire Talk] we delve deep into a difficult, but necessary subject: climate grief. Our guest today is Elisabeth Dimitras, a neurodivergent queer soul activist and founder of the online antispeciesist website Ethos & Empathy. Elisabeth is from Greece, but had to move to Sweden due to climate change. She'll tell us about her dreams, the story of her loss, what she learned about the mourning the living, both human and non-human, and about climate grief. In the [Offering], Elisabeth will read us The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy as told by Johanna Macy.
Attention: The episode can be a bit emotionally heavy at times. There is a mention of suicide in the last half.
#ecogrief #earthgrief #ecoanxiety #petloss #griefrecovery #griefliteracy #shapesofgrief #antispeciesist_grief #Francis_Weller #the_wild_edge_of_sorrow
Ilan Kelman"Dépaysement: #MentalHealth Impacts as the Environment Changes - alienated and displaced from home: Mental impacts of #EnvironmentalChange."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202603/depaysement-mental-health-impacts-as-the-environment-changes
#dépaysement #depaysement #solastalgia #EcoAnxiety #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration
Jo RhodesA wave and delayed #ff for @GreenChristian who have just joined the fediverse. Website has been going since 2011 and over 1400 blog posts, zooms and articles on a range of topics including #nature #rewilding #food #biodiversity #EcoChurch #EthicalFinance #EnergySaving #Passivhaus #EcoAnxiety #ClimateCrisis #Adaptation as well as resources like prayers and sermons with a green theme https://greenchristian.org.uk/ #faith #christianity
Excellent upcoming free webinar related to ecological grief.
The Arts Incubator Winnipeg🎧 Experience The Canoe Tip—a story where the wilderness speaks louder than words. Family, survival, and eco-anxiety collide on Melgund Lake. Listen now! #Audiobook #FamilyReads #EcoAnxiety #YoungReaders
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-canoe-tip/id1862585726
Maikel de BakkerIt’s been a while since I shared something new. Not because I haven’t wanted to go out… but because the world outside feels unfamiliar lately. December in the Netherlands, normally a time of frost, quiet forests, and the promise of winter, has instead been hovering around 13°C — for weeks. No snow. No frozen ponds. Just rain and warm winds.
And it shows. Trees dropping their leaves later every year. Flowers blooming earlier. Birds already practicing mating calls they shouldn’t be singing in mid-winter. This isn’t “just the weather.” This is a system signalling distress. And after 35 years of fighting climate change — 25 of them actively through Greenpeace, Fossil Free NL, and the Partij voor de Dieren — it weighs on me. I’m angry. I’m tired. And yes, I’m in a depressive episode.
But even in that darkness, light sometimes breaks through.
About two weeks ago in the Kampina, the sun managed to pierce through the dense trees for a brief moment, sending pale golden rays across the forest path. A rare, fragile moment of beauty in a warming world. I captured it handheld with my Canon 5DsR and the Sigma Art set at 44 mm — f/2.8, 1/500s — in the soft, misty morning light around 09:00.
#wonderinglens #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography #NaturePhotography #ClimateGrief #ClimateChangeIsReal #WarmWinters #ForestLight #Kampina #MorningMist #Canon5DsR #SigmaArt2470 #PhotographyAsObservation #DocumentingChange #ScientificStorytelling #NatureLovers #DutchNature #GlobalWarming #WalkingForClarity #MistyForest #SunRays #LightAndShadow #EarlyMorningLight #HandheldPhotography #ForestsOfTheNetherlands #NatureWalks #EnvironmentalAwareness #ClimateReality #LandscapePhotography #EcoAnxiety #NatureInDecember #UnexpectedWarmth #PhotographyAndScience #ArtAndObservation #ChangingSeasons #ProtectNature #ConservationMatters #ForestPath #EmotionalHonesty #StoryOfTheEarth
And it shows. Trees dropping their leaves later every year. Flowers blooming earlier. Birds already practicing mating calls they shouldn’t be singing in mid-winter. This isn’t “just the weather.” This is a system signalling distress. And after 35 years of fighting climate change — 25 of them actively through Greenpeace, Fossil Free NL, and the Partij voor de Dieren — it weighs on me. I’m angry. I’m tired. And yes, I’m in a depressive episode.
But even in that darkness, light sometimes breaks through.
About two weeks ago in the Kampina, the sun managed to pierce through the dense trees for a brief moment, sending pale golden rays across the forest path. A rare, fragile moment of beauty in a warming world. I captured it handheld with my Canon 5DsR and the Sigma Art set at 44 mm — f/2.8, 1/500s — in the soft, misty morning light around 09:00.
#wonderinglens #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography #NaturePhotography #ClimateGrief #ClimateChangeIsReal #WarmWinters #ForestLight #Kampina #MorningMist #Canon5DsR #SigmaArt2470 #PhotographyAsObservation #DocumentingChange #ScientificStorytelling #NatureLovers #DutchNature #GlobalWarming #WalkingForClarity #MistyForest #SunRays #LightAndShadow #EarlyMorningLight #HandheldPhotography #ForestsOfTheNetherlands #NatureWalks #EnvironmentalAwareness #ClimateReality #LandscapePhotography #EcoAnxiety #NatureInDecember #UnexpectedWarmth #PhotographyAndScience #ArtAndObservation #ChangingSeasons #ProtectNature #ConservationMatters #ForestPath #EmotionalHonesty #StoryOfTheEarth
Christophe@Amgine It is interesting to see how people can be mistaken about climate change action.
We know that climate change is mainly a question of power from an elite how decides to make money knowing that the poorest will pay the consequences. Carbon emissions grow as capitalism does.
Climate change is a political decision.
This is overwhelming and the oppression over citizens is very heavy.
Stress over young generations is acting almost invisibly and mental disorder like depression is one of the consequences.
Surprisingly some NGO’s and environmental association decide not to fight politically. They prefer to plant trees that we knows don’t have the power to reverse carbon emissions, or worse, they call for joining local beach cleanups, forgetting that the litter on a beach has nothing to do with climate change.
Doing so they are not helping the anxiety due to climate change… they make it worse.
Of course the social action is positive, but the real problem is still here, not attended.
Climate change anxiety is better treated when we see it as grieving. What is lost is lost for ever. What is extinct won’t flourish again.
Sadness, rage and rebellion, acceptance are steps on the healing path.
It is important not to be part of the greenwashing if we don’t want this young generation to feel more betrayed.
#climatechange #grief #death #education #psicology #Politics #beachcleaning #greenwashing #anxiety #ecoanxiety
We know that climate change is mainly a question of power from an elite how decides to make money knowing that the poorest will pay the consequences. Carbon emissions grow as capitalism does.
Climate change is a political decision.
This is overwhelming and the oppression over citizens is very heavy.
Stress over young generations is acting almost invisibly and mental disorder like depression is one of the consequences.
Surprisingly some NGO’s and environmental association decide not to fight politically. They prefer to plant trees that we knows don’t have the power to reverse carbon emissions, or worse, they call for joining local beach cleanups, forgetting that the litter on a beach has nothing to do with climate change.
Doing so they are not helping the anxiety due to climate change… they make it worse.
Of course the social action is positive, but the real problem is still here, not attended.
Climate change anxiety is better treated when we see it as grieving. What is lost is lost for ever. What is extinct won’t flourish again.
Sadness, rage and rebellion, acceptance are steps on the healing path.
It is important not to be part of the greenwashing if we don’t want this young generation to feel more betrayed.
#climatechange #grief #death #education #psicology #Politics #beachcleaning #greenwashing #anxiety #ecoanxiety
"Measuring Eco-anxiety, or Not: Examining scales and indices for trauma from environmental change"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202509/measuring-eco-anxiety-or-not
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress #EcoAnxiety #DRR #MenthalHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #PlanetaryHealth
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202509/measuring-eco-anxiety-or-not
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress #EcoAnxiety #DRR #MenthalHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #PlanetaryHealth
venonat5592 at KillBaitThe Rising Wave of Ecoanxiety Among Young People in the Face of Climate Change
As climate change continues to accelerate, a growing number of young people worldwide are grappling with ecoanxiety—a deep, persistent fear about the future of the planet. This issue is particularly pronounced among those living on the frontlines of climate breakdown. Eparama Qerewaqa from Fiji reca... [More info]