#I am so full of unbridled rage and grief and helplessness

[love-my-self23333]

What are we going to do. It’s so much worse than we realize. I don’t think the average person, including myself, understands the extent of what we’ve done to this planet and all it’s inhabitants. I’m trying so hard not to lose hope but I just don’t see a light at the end of this tunnel.

I’m not saying that those working in conservation and sustainability, those actively working to change policies that effect the environment, those living as close to a low-waste lifestyle as they can with their position in this stupid, broken system aren’t making a difference and should give up. It’s imperative that we do not give up.

But I also fear that, this is such a widespread, deeply interconnected global crisis, that we as a species collectively will be not able to create the kind of unanimous upheaval needed to save the planet. The climate crisis is here and I don’t think anyone truly recognizes the complete extent of our impact on this plant as a species.

We are all lacking in ability to see this, as we cannot access that perspective. I believe that our planet and all its beings are suffering more than we can possibly comprehend or understand. We are all animals of this earth, despite our species-wide insistence that nature is somehow separate, is the Other. I think the true and full reality of what the planet as a whole is facing is a macrocosm we do not have the ability to comprehend.

We as a species are not omnipotent despite our science and knowledge and creativity and as the weird fucking animals we are, we simply do not have the capacity to recognize our situation in its full reality. We simply cannot. I don’t think our evolved brains and bodies are capable of fixing this.

And that scares me. I don’t know what we are going to do. Genuinely. What the fuck are we going to do.

There are so many beings that are suffering right now, humans and animals and plant-life alike. I don’t know how to hold all this grief. Where do you put it when it eclipses all you see and think and feel? We are losing so many lives every single day. We are losing precious species and ecosystems that we aren’t aware of. The few precious wild spaces and habitats are being destroyed every single day. We are losing human lives in more ways than we can comprehend. There is so much suffering and loss and pain and it is absolutely immense.

What the fuck are we going to do