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Calling the Earthlings
This is really important to me. This time last year I had the worst panic attack of my life. I'd sat on the edge of the sea and thought, "I failed you. You gave me everything and I did nothing to protect you." It devolved quickly into nearly six hours of sobbing, hyperventilating, and pure panic. After that, I started picking up trash, for hours on end. I didn't eat meat, I didn't buy clothes, I didn't drive cars.... A lot of the anxiety died down and while I still occasionally pick up trash, I now eat meat and I'll get in a car if need be. But the feeling that I could do more, and the feeling of fear is still wrought in every thought. So this challenge is part of an art project I'm doing to sort of communicate these thoughts- thoughts I know are shared by so many people. Show me how you feel about the environment in any format, and then comment at the bottom whether or not you'd be okay with me using your words, and if I could credit you in any way. Thank you so much!

Four Earths

I have tried to write this more than once, it is just a complicated topic, with a lot of things I could talk about.

Environmental issues are complicated, and a little terrifying. They cover everything from CO2 emissions, to Stratospheric Ozone, to water contamination, to extinction, to Urban Heat Island effect.

They effect everything from rocks, to coral, to frogs in the rain forest, that will soon become extinct.

I do not think that I have Climate Anxiety.

I am no Climate Warrior.

I do my part, it is not enough but I do my part. I carpool, I recycle, I compost, I ride my bike places, I volunteer at a garden that is almost organic (the wood for our raised beds was treated with chemicals, other than that it is organic.)

I know that I don't make a big difference. I took a quiz once that said that if everyone on earth lived like me we would need about four earths... at least it is not five right?

My feeling about the environment are complicated and hard to express, I have done the best that I can here, but just like my efforts to help, it is not good enough.