climate: disrupted
Ivern Ball said that.
This page isn't to argue the toss about climate change.
It's to try and get our heads round the fact that we may have missed the boat, and we need to understand what that means. For us - our lives, our sense of purpose, our status, our security, our identity, our sense of collective community, our politics, and our next steps - and for everyone else. No-one knows the answers, here. We're just trying to look at the wall. Maybe for the first time.
Some of the stuff on this page may make you sad; or angry; or confused. Probably all three and more. That's ok. We all feel like that. Me, I'm incandescent, and (in the words of James Murray, below), fucking terrified.
But as Kate Marvel (below) says:
"I have no hope that these changes can be reversed. We are inevitably sending our children to live on an unfamiliar planet. But the opposite of hope is not despair. It is grief. Even while resolving to limit the damage, we can mourn. And here, the sheer scale of the problem provides a perverse comfort: we are in this together. The swiftness of the change, its scale and inevitability, binds us into one, broken hearts trapped together under a warming atmosphere.
"We need courage, not hope. Grief, after all, is the cost of being alive. We are all fated to live lives shot through with sadness, and are not worth less for it. Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending. Little molecules, random in their movement, add together to a coherent whole. Little lives do not. But here we are, together on a planet radiating ever more into space where there is no darkness, only light we cannot see.""
Welcome. And if you want to join Climate Kernow, a emerging citizen network of everyone doing anything on climate across Cornwall, click here!
Climate Kernow: a Citizen and Community Network across Cornwall confronting and responding to climate and ecological breakdown
3 simple aims:
1: To connect to and with all those who are driving transformational change in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
2: To collaborate with all and amplify collective effors, and contribute to communication with all, on all interconnected issues
3: To challenge the current presumptions, assumptions and habits, to create the space for transformational change
6 simple guidelines:
1: We share a vision of change whereby we meet the needs of all within the planetary boundaries
2: We embrace regenerative and redistributive methods to create a safe and just habitat for all
3: We are open to challenge ourselves and invite new ideas and perspectives, to ensure inclusivity for all
4: We value reflecting and learning as a constant cycle
5: We avoid blaming and shaming and acknowledge we all live in an injust and unsafe system
6: When we challenge any part of the system we are doing it with an open mind and honest heart, with intent to contribute to a better alternative, and inviting constructive response
All welcome!
3 simple aims:
1: To connect to and with all those who are driving transformational change in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
2: To collaborate with all and amplify collective effors, and contribute to communication with all, on all interconnected issues
3: To challenge the current presumptions, assumptions and habits, to create the space for transformational change
6 simple guidelines:
1: We share a vision of change whereby we meet the needs of all within the planetary boundaries
2: We embrace regenerative and redistributive methods to create a safe and just habitat for all
3: We are open to challenge ourselves and invite new ideas and perspectives, to ensure inclusivity for all
4: We value reflecting and learning as a constant cycle
5: We avoid blaming and shaming and acknowledge we all live in an injust and unsafe system
6: When we challenge any part of the system we are doing it with an open mind and honest heart, with intent to contribute to a better alternative, and inviting constructive response
All welcome!
Some thoughts on climate silence
In the week the IPCC told the world we have 12 years left to keep our asses below 1.5 degrees, a bunch of concerned and determined citizens met to see where our respective dust is settling (or not)
about all of this - you can see more here.
We became The Good Companions and went on to talk to and with many, many other citizens, groups, councillors,
officers and communities from there.
The Good Companions is one of the
founding members of Climate Kernow. Join us!
All comments welcome - here and on the FB page
upcoming events ...
