#thelma young lutunatabua

[wellconstructedsentences]

Have we acted as if there were possibilities other than destruction? Have we taken steps to show that our liberation is tied to that of others?

Not Too Late by Thelma Young Lutunatabua

#not too late #thelma young lutunatabua

[jacobwren]

“Some of us receive the precious opportunity in this time to use the struggles that we are experiencing to dedicating ourselves to fostering sanity, care, and justice in the world. We have heeded the call to abandon futility and meet our moral anguish, our grief, and our fear with openness and curiosity. We have also allowed ourselves to be worked by the power of adversity in order to meet the unfolding and uncertain present with inquiry, hope, awe, and loving action. And if we can’t, then we do not turn away from that. Sometimes we have to pause, not ready to take the next step. Sometimes we make unfortunate mistakes and withdraw from the world in shame. Sometimes we falter in the midst. Sometimes we fall apart and stay that way for a long time. And sometimes we need to step away, to retreat, to take the backward step. It is simply not our time to step forward. But know that we, too, are being worked. And others are being worked in their own way. It is not to add the weight of judgement onto the burden that we are already carrying. It is not to turn away from our current experience, even if our response does not meet our so-called standards. It is rather to meet it with, ‘Hello old friend, I know you.’” - Roshi Joan Halifax, Meeting the More and the Marrow [From the book: Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility / Edited by  Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua]

#roshi joan halifax

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Drew Sheneman, Newark Star-Ledger

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Bill McKibben writes: 

A planet at 420 parts per million co2 is a different planet than one at 275 parts per million. If Captain Kirk was landing on it, the first thing his tricorder would register is the composition of the atmosphere; when you’re talking planets, it’s a pretty basic data point. 

So we don’t really know what surprises are in store—though that news that the Antarctic current was starting to slow like a hose with a crimp is fair warning.

I don’t say all this in the service of despair, but of preparation. We need to be psychologically prepared for the fact that, for all we’ve tried to do together, this crisis is about to worsen. Forewarned is, to some small extent, forearmed. I suppose some might need to prepare themselves individually too, though that’s not my focus (Alex Steffen, the futurist, has begun offering courses on ‘ruggedization,’ which links personal preparation to community resilience, and defintiely beats buying out-of-date MREs from your favorite rightwing podcaster).

But we really need to be prepared politically. Each of these surges in warming unleashed by the next El Nino comes with new political possibilities, as people see and feel more clearly our peril. At the moment, our climate politics, like our climate itself, is a little stalled. The surge of change that came from Greta’s school strikes, the Paris accords, the Green New Deal has waned; we’re in a new stalemate where the oil industry has learned to rely on delay instead of denial. It often takes them a few years, but eventually they get good at working the politics—for the moment, for instance, they’ve got their captive state treasurers locking banks and asset managers in place with the charged that worrying about the fiscal implications of the climate crisis represents ‘woke capitalism.’

As the next round of savage heatwaves proceeds, it will come with new pressure for action from our governments and corporations. We need to be able to channel that pressure effectively, with key goals in mind: the absolute end to new fossil fuel development and exploration, the quick weaning from existing supplies of coal and gas and oil and with it the equally rapid buildout of cleaner sources of energy, the unwavering support for the places and people hardest hit. 

There will be all sorts of emotions; I hope that the anger people will rightly feel is channeled toward the corporate and legal destruction of the companies that have lied for three decades and still represent the largest barrier to change.It’s just the right moment for Not Too Late, a new anthology compiled by two old friends who are also among the most stalwart leaders of the climate fight. 

Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Latunatabua have managed something important: an alternative to doomism that isn’t sentimental or treacly, but absolutely serious. “Hope is not the guarantee that things will be okay,” 

Young-Lutunatabua says. “It’s the recognition that there’s spaciousness for action, that the future is uncertain, and in that uncertainty, we have space to step into and make the future we want.” I agree with that—with the caveat that the spaciousness doesn’t last forever. I have the strong instinct that this El Nino may be the last of these moments that the earth offers us in a time frame still relevant to making coherent and savvy civilization-scale change. We dare not misuse it.  

[Bill McKibbon]

#climate change #Drew Sheneman #Bill McKibbon #Not Too Late #get ready

[atompowers]

New Climate Poem

#climate poem #not too late #climate anthology #Cento #poem #poetry #climate hope #active Hope #collage #anthology #collective heroes #quotes #quote #rebecca solnit

[katslefty]

[projectourworld]

We can’t afford to be climate doomers.

It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win.

In a recent 2023 survey, “Nearly seven-in-ten Americans (69%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050” and in 2021 “three-quarters (75%) of adults in Great Britain said they were worried about the impact of climate change”

The problem is positive climate news doesn’t make dramatic headlines.

Rebecca Solnit. The Guardian Newspaper / Contributor image for: Rebecca Solnit / Rebecca Solnit’s most recent books are Orwell’s Roses and the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, co-edited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua #people #purpose #responsibility #possibility #solutions

[artwalktv]

Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds "Matagi Mālohi tells the story of our journey to uplift our people and shape a narrative that paints us not as victims of the climate crisis but as the leaders, the healers, the nurturers, the artists, the gardeners, the growers, the seafarers and the navigators we are. We need to be the strong winds that have carried our ancestors across the seas. We need to be the strong winds pushing our leaders forward as they come up against the might of these big bullying nations. We need to be the strong winds, that Matagi Mālohi, that bring the change our people need to see." The Pacific Climate Warriors, born out of the low-lying Pacific Islands, are an indigenous and youth lead movement who now have been on the front lines of climate change for decades -- their rally cry is “we are not drowning, we are fighting.” Directed by: Aidan Haley, Canyon Woodward, Forest Woodward Speech + writer: Kevin Aipopo Creative direction + story + poetry: Fenton Lutunatabua Pacific footage: Forest + Canyon Woodward Climate rally footage: Aeon Visual / Zeke Jones Audio Post Production: Ridgeline Sound Music: Julian Calor - "Desperation" With special thanks to: Koreti Mavaega Tiumalu and family Fenton Lutunatabua Kevin Aipopo The Pacific Climate Warriors family The Pacific Islander Student Alliance Thelma Young-Lutunatabua Faitofi (Dobby) Pusinelli and family Kevika Kemangu and family Rurunteiti Kaiarake and family The late Pusinelli Lafai and family Bernard Ewekia Rev. Tevasa Iakopo Milikini Failautusi Makerusa Porotesano Simeon Jacob Laura Yale all our Tuvalu friends and particularly the island communities of Vaitupu, Nui, Nukufetau, and Funafuti We also gratefully acknowledge the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, and Molalla peoples, among others, on whose homelands parts of this film were made.

#Videos & Films

[ozkamal]

Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds "Matagi Mālohi tells the story of our journey to uplift our people and shape a narrative that paints us not as victims of the climate crisis but as the leaders, the healers, the nurturers, the artists, the gardeners, the growers, the seafarers and the navigators we are. We need to be the strong winds that have carried our ancestors across the seas. We need to be the strong winds pushing our leaders forward as they come up against the might of these big bullying nations. We need to be the strong winds, that Matagi Mālohi, that bring the change our people need to see." The Pacific Climate Warriors, born out of the low-lying Pacific Islands, are an indigenous and youth lead movement who now have been on the front lines of climate change for decades -- their rally cry is “we are not drowning, we are fighting.” Directed by: Aidan Haley, Canyon Woodward, Forest Woodward Speech + writer: Kevin Aipopo Creative direction + story + poetry: Fenton Lutunatabua Pacific footage: Forest + Canyon Woodward Climate rally footage: Aeon Visual / Zeke Jones Audio Post Production: Ridgeline Sound Music: Julian Calor - "Desperation" With special thanks to: Koreti Mavaega Tiumalu and family Fenton Lutunatabua Kevin Aipopo The Pacific Climate Warriors family The Pacific Islander Student Alliance Thelma Young-Lutunatabua Faitofi (Dobby) Pusinelli and family Kevika Kemangu and family Rurunteiti Kaiarake and family The late Pusinelli Lafai and family Bernard Ewekia Rev. Tevasa Iakopo Milikini Failautusi Makerusa Porotesano Simeon Jacob Laura Yale all our Tuvalu friends and particularly the island communities of Vaitupu, Nui, Nukufetau, and Funafuti We also gratefully acknowledge the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, and Molalla peoples, among others, on whose homelands parts of this film were made.

#IFTTT #Vimeo