#ClimateDiary Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks.
Ongoing UK floods, etc, etc.
Reflecting on
1. How rapidly things have deteriorated- when we started #ClimateDiary 3 years ago, we did not yet have constant extreme weather (in Global North at least).
2. How quickly, awfully, we get used to this. Weather events as main news items: completely normal now. So much #normalisation, of course, in HOW it’s all reported.
#ShiftingBaseline syndrom
…I post the above kinds of thing occasionally because if you are in the UK and under 25 you might think that this kind of weather is just how January has been in the UK.
It’s not.
Shifting Baseline erklärt, warum wir graduelle Veränderungen kaum wahrnehmen. Schritt für Schritt verschieben sich Normen, Werte und unser Gefühl für das, was „normal“ ist. Das betrifft Umwelt, Politik und unsere Erinnerungskultur.
Artikel: https://dergoldenealuhut.de/shifting-baseline/
2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: https://www.cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.
#culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
#Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".
How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-08-shifting-times/id1630784381?i=1000629684574
#NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline
@TwraSun Was für ein Totalabsturz im ÖRR: Göpel hofft auf technologische Lösungen und die anderen Klimaleugner (und Verharmloser wie Marotzke) schwurbeln herum.
#ShiftingBaseline
"• Der ÖRR ist kaputt."
Technologie wird uns nicht retten.
Dennoch allen ein schönes Wochenende. 🙂
My piece on the ever less pristine #Arctic is here btw. A bit old, but it stands up. I doubt we can ever go back, but how I would have loved to see it full of marine mammals, birds and ice as it once was...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2015/12/17/how-pristine-is-the-arctic/
I wish I could explain how it feels to read Muir,
listen to the Sierra stories of my uncle,
or even read a BackpackingLite forum post from 2006.
It's a shameful kind of jealousy and sadness and anger.
Knowing that these experiences of isolation, wildlife, and discovery are gone now.
To know that ducks over the Central Valley could blot out the sky at sunset;
to learn that insects have lost 70% of their population;
to hear of cities that were meadows not 100 years ago but 40 years ago;
to imagine bears roaming the grasslands of that sick joke, Grizzly Peak.
Pauline von Hellermann
Jonathan Schofield
Der goldene Aluhut
Petra van Cronenburg
ehem. dystopod 🔥🏚️🗿☮️🌍❤️🌱
Peter Valkema
Ruth Mottram
NSW.Biodiversity
Chuck Darwin