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Heather: Hey so I’m really happy to welcome Peter Wicks. One of the workshops I run is on tone policing and I learnt about it from Layla Saad’s book Me and White Supremacy. It’s around how there’s kind of…
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Ecofascism is something I never thought I’d be talking about. And, yet, in the past year, I’ve noticed that there’s a particular vulnerability that we have to normalising the language that will lead us to ecofascism.
Some people would say that we already…
[Listen to this as a podcast.] Discovering Extinction Rebellion (XR) meant I no longer felt utter despair when looking at the news. Other people cared. Other people weren’t numbed out. They were stepping out of their comfort zones and interrupting business as usual in London (and, eventually, elsewhere).
Sometimes, before…
Urgency as a White Supremacist Culture Pattern. [Listen to this is a podcast.] How does the exclamation, “It’s urgent!” land in your body? Does it bring up a panic response? Does it make you think you need to drop everything and attend to something? …
In the climate change field, people often talk about “giving up hope” or “feeling hopeless”– or even “feeling hopeful.” What are we talking about? What, exactly, are we hoping for?
Do those of us in the climate change field (or: sector, industry, movement) — do we have an implicit agreement…
“No Justice on a Dead Planet” reads a popular placard at recent climate protests.
But is it true?
On face value, yes. There can be no justice for humans if humans aren’t alive.
But the implication of the placard is that justice can wait (or must wait, even)… until we…
So many things about climate change make us feel uncomfortable. Shall we list some of them?
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 days a hug for growth. – Virgina Satir
We’re going for 12 per day, okay? Here’s how (amend as necessary):
Smile and say to the bus driver, “Hello! Good morning!”
Can that really help to avoid a bus crash?
If our brain works better when we’re relaxed and happy, then a bus driver will be better able to cope with challenging situations on the road, challenging situations on the bus, when s/he is having good experiences.
Besides, ask yourself: Is it useful to believe that not smiling at the bus driver is a good way to promote safer driving on the roads?
Next step: Apply this to every other relationship in your life.
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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 days a hug for growth. — Virgina Satir
Men don’t do things by halves, so we’re going for 12 hugs per day. Here’s why:
