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    • Autumn 2020: climate and health skills lab event
    • Summer 2019: Climate Catastrophe: Dr Rupert Read
    • Summer 2019: Negotiating the Surrender: Dougald Hine
    • Winter 2018: Polyglot: The Art of Change
    • Autumn 2018: Climate Disrupted : in Good Company
    • Autumn 2018: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Doughnut Hack
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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!


Some thoughts on climate silence

Kate Marvel: 'We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change'
Rebecca Solnit on Hope. Click here for the short audio clip on her take on hope. It's the book I take everywhere with me now.
James Murray: "Fear and Loathing on the Climate Beat".
Eric Holthaus: said it like it is on twitter and named his own grief.
Stephen Bush: "The global heatwave will change politics - and not just in the future".
Jem Bendell: Dialogue on Deep Adaptation (response to his original article last week)
Jonathan Foley on the need to keep working "between two worlds" - "I’ve come to believe that the best place to live is precisely between two worlds — between the world of despair and frustration, which reminds us of the work we must do and the stakes involved, and the world of awe, wonder, hope, inspiration, and love, which refuels our minds and our hearts, and keeps us going."


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






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  • hello
  • The psycho-sociology of change
  • economics: disrupted
  • climate: disrupted
  • cafe disruptif gatherings
    • Autumn 2020: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Cornwall Doughnut Collective
    • Autumn 2020: climate and health skills lab event
    • Summer 2019: Climate Catastrophe: Dr Rupert Read
    • Summer 2019: Negotiating the Surrender: Dougald Hine
    • Winter 2018: Polyglot: The Art of Change
    • Autumn 2018: Climate Disrupted : in Good Company
    • Autumn 2018: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Doughnut Hack
    • Summer 2018: Economics disrupted: reclaiming the ground
    • Summer 2018: The Psychology of Change II : Now It's Personal
    • Winter 2017: Launch - The Wet Fish
  • gallery of disruption
    • contact us
    • andy
    • chris h
    • faraday
    • jeremy
    • joey
    • pat
    • louis
    • manda
    • stephen
    • oliver
    • ruby
    • simon
    • natalia
    • sara
    • chris j
    • lynne
    • luke
    • mod
    • ian
    • rosie
    • matt
  • climate truths and myths
  • climate emergency declarers
  • thought: disrupted
    • events calendar
    • the art and science of critical thinking
    • only bloody connect: why it's so dfficult to communicate the most crucial stuff on the planet
    • economics: disrupted - atlas of pro-sperity
    • society: disrupted
    • environment: disrupted
  • disruptive reads
  • disruptive words
  • cognitive dissidents
  • sustainable us
  • the art of change
  • who we are
  • Blog
  • New Page