"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

https://deathandsociety.org/etn/mapping-deathways-environmentally-digitally-and-through-repatriationscapes/

Excellent upcoming free webinar related to ecological grief.

#ecogrief #ecoanxiety #ecoanxious #grief

Joanna Macy taught us that we can be in awe at the same time with being desperately grieving for the state of the world.

Joy can coexist with grief.

This is what I am feeling now, while walking through this majestic city and thinking of the non human and human victims of the flood in Asia.

#ecogrief

Hope for the future

"I never thought I'd have to say this, but climate change is... not actually as bad as people are saying it is. That's not because it's got any less bad, it's because people have become so immoderate in their hyperbole that young people are growing up thinking the world will literally end during their lifetimes.

It's not the End Times. It's not Armageddon, it's not Ragnarok, it's not the Heat Death of the Universe. It's climate change."

#ClimateChange
#EcoGrief
#hope

The Story That Should Not Have Been:

This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..

We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.

And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.

We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.

We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.

The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.

Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.

Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.

Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.

And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.

So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?

It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.

But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:

Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.

Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.

#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism

I'm walking through all my zines, because I love sharing them with people! Be sure to check out my eco-grief video ❤️

#zine #queer #lgbtq #death #deathdoula #ecogrief #grief #environment #climatechange

https://open.substack.com/pub/aqueerdeath/p/walking-through-my-what-is-eco-grief?r=4akm70&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Image description: An apple tree which has been severely pruned. Fig 202 from page 246 of "Botany for agricultural students" (1919), via Internet Archive by way of Flickr. Public domain.

Why this image? Read on...

#EcoGrief #music #trees