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Existential Crisis Management of a Pregnant Woman, a copy from FB

A quick questionnaire for the early birds: *Spoiler Alert: includes existential crisis management of a pregnant woman. Yes, this is my first time mentioning it openly: I am 7 months pregnant with a baby girl, guys! (acupuncture rocks, but it's a different story)

So, Questions: - Did you sleep well tonight? - How much money/time/knowledge would you (personally you) be willing to donate to a cause that helps you sleeping/breathing better? (My own answer down the bottom)

I couldn't sleep, cause it was the hottest night of the year in our region.

Most people would agree, that it is not a great start of Friday to wake up at night from a weird dream, sweaty and gasping for air and some water. Makes it even a bit worse, if the baby is kicking your like a wild whale, while you are at it.

In the spirit of the obvious climate change and naturally hoping for the survivable future, my head was wondering: WHAT CAN I DO?

I mean, I am asking myself this question pretty often, some days more than others. Living a busy/interesting life in the busy world, keeps us all preoccupied with a day to day activities and tasks. Sorting this tasks is already impressive enough.

But, yes, in the end of the day, to perform my amazing tasks I need: oxygen, water, food and a few more things... oxygen is pretty up high on the list.

And apparently (based on the last Greta's video ✌ and all the current research) we are getting far too much CO2 in here. Not sure, if we will have less oxygen persey, but it is getting harder to breath.

So, there are a lot of projects out there focused on reducing/extracting/etc CO2 from the air. Most scientist seem to agree that there is no one solution: we need them all and now, cause the clock is ticking.

Trees are pretty good at absorbing the co2, making o2. Also they look nice, create shade and wonderful furry creatures live in it. So, I like trees/forests.

There seem to be quite a few projects out there to reforestate/safe exciting trees. I will be honest, I haven't financially supposed any yet.

I mean, I am pretty standard: I recycle, try to consume less, use public transport, try not to fly, try to eat regional/seasonal/no palm oil and so on. Most of my friends are like this, as far as I am concerned.

But waking up at night gasping for air is not fun. So: WHAT CAN I DO? First of all: survive. I did! Yay! Baby seems to be ok too.

Now, shall we: 1. - support an existing project to make/save trees, etc? 2. - shall we organise our own project? 3. - do both

1. There are plenty of good small/medium projects out there. And each drop of goodness counts.

My CONSTANT issues with donating money are: - Je, it takes time to read through every website and their goals/etc. It takes hours and I still don't feel sure, ever. - Where do the money go? - How much of donated money are actually used for the cause? - Do they actually help or make poorer poor and rich richer? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So I am very anxious about this one.

2. I can’t get this annoying idea out of my head, that it would be lovely to have a global pot of money. Cause I am not a millionaire, but I have some money. I am happy to share for a good cause.

A pot, where: - you just give, what you want to give. - It is madly transparent, so first thing first: you can see in real time how much money is in it, how much is spent, where the money went. - say once a week there is a vote which cause will be supported/how much money will be given to it. - it is mainly run by volunteers. So most money are saved. I mean, I will speak for myself: I am quite happy to share/ invest a few hours of week to a cause for free, share my knowledge with the world for the common good. I think most of people are. So, we will need lawyers, IT specialist, admins, bankers, gardeners, lol - everyone really.

3. Do both, which is probably best.

I personally would be ready to donate 30-50% of what is in my bank account for a transparent/volunteer-based project like planting/saving/taking care of trees globally.

What do you think?