I particularly valued Robert's empathy for the miners, in the context of this from another piece about the exhaustion and dangers that come with relentless urgency, and the demonisation of those who disagree with us:
"One critique that comes up often is the notion that we don’t have time for softness, that especially when it comes to the climate, urgency is an absolute necessity. I hear that, but making space for loss and complexity doesn’t necessarily take long. And skipping over it definitely makes the change process longer. Often, the absence of softness makes me disconnect from the conversation and do nothing, so I’ll take slower softness over the paralysis that harder lines evoke in me."
I keep thinking that your inquiry is helping to reframe the whole global crisis as one of relationship. By exploring specific places, more-than-human relatives, and human relatives in relationship with the self-terminating Wetiko economy, you also point out what is it to live no matter ultimate outcomes. Resistance is as much about the intrinsic good of truly living as it is about influencing and co-creating a future with living in. Both are part of it? But, oh, it is about relationship, always and everywhere…
I particularly valued Robert's empathy for the miners, in the context of this from another piece about the exhaustion and dangers that come with relentless urgency, and the demonisation of those who disagree with us:
"One critique that comes up often is the notion that we don’t have time for softness, that especially when it comes to the climate, urgency is an absolute necessity. I hear that, but making space for loss and complexity doesn’t necessarily take long. And skipping over it definitely makes the change process longer. Often, the absence of softness makes me disconnect from the conversation and do nothing, so I’ll take slower softness over the paralysis that harder lines evoke in me."
(https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/softening-rhetoric-what-therapy-teaches-us-social-change)
Beautiful powerful writing, thank you. Put another way 'systems thinking financing love'. Keep it up
I keep thinking that your inquiry is helping to reframe the whole global crisis as one of relationship. By exploring specific places, more-than-human relatives, and human relatives in relationship with the self-terminating Wetiko economy, you also point out what is it to live no matter ultimate outcomes. Resistance is as much about the intrinsic good of truly living as it is about influencing and co-creating a future with living in. Both are part of it? But, oh, it is about relationship, always and everywhere…
Truly inspiring and beautifully written. Thank you for providing a window to what we don’t otherwise see.