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Activities Which Can Help Us Deal With Climate Anxiety<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, Asheville, North Carolina<\/p>\n

Recently, it has been brought to my attention that I’m getting older. [Well, big DUH there – as if any of us is getting younger!] One of the things that growing older often brings is more wisdom. Human beings have an awesome sense of cleverness, but we frequently lack wisdom or the foresight to see what kinds of consequences might result from actions we take today.<\/p>\n

Most people even 50 years ago would have never thought about the consequences of\u00a0thawing permafrost and melting glaciers<\/a>\u00a0and ice patches. There are both positive effects and negative effects. I have brought up the predicaments caused by\u00a0ecological overshoot<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0climate change<\/a>, but\u00a0a new article from The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0points out how ancient wars and other historical secrets and long-extinct animals are emerging from these areas of permafrost and ice, adding to our knowledge and occasionally completely rearranging history as a result of these finds.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the ongoing specter of the effects of ecological overshoot (and climate change in most people’s minds) brings to light the lack of discussion among society today, as if most people are afraid to look at reality.\u00a0Caitlin Johnstone brings to light this phenomenon<\/a>, quote:<\/p>\n

“The way we\u2019re just sitting around going about our lives like this isn\u2019t happening reminds me of\u00a0that experiment<\/a> where participants sit in a waiting room that\u2019s filling up with smoke without knowing that the experiment is already underway. If the participants are alone they\u2019ll generally take action to do something about the problem, but if they\u2019re in the waiting room with other people who are secretly in on the experiment and have been told to ignore the smoke, the participant will also ignore it…<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n


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