More Nauseating Climate Grief from the Guardian
6 hours ago Eric Worrall 28 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t strativarius; Another moan for a dying planet…
Climate grief is real – and I cannot keep watching images of our dying planet
David Shearman
Wed 5 Jul 2023 01.00 AEST
Our leaders’ addiction to economic growth and its consumption of environmental resources has me paralysed with fear and solastalgia
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In some, like Queen Victoria, the loss of a partner may cause lifelong grief with self-imposed withdrawal and solitude.
I have now realised that I have a grief disorder which has arisen slowly over the past few decades and is likely to remain prolonged.
My brain suddenly came to the diagnosis when I tried to watch Tim Winton’s series on Ningaloo Nyinggulu, one of the Earth’s last truly wild and intact places. I use the word “tried” because it hurt to watch, and I had to turn it off. After many years of working on environmental issues and being steeped in the wonder and beauty of the natural world I had realised it would inevitably die soon.
Now I cannot watch these images of a dying partner.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/10/more-nauseating-climate-grief-from-the-guardian/
