If you have been wondering what I was thinking during that discussion about vacations around the globe, yes, it is the case that my brain was bleeding with pain.

Bleeding from the pain of the feelings YOU are prevented from processing.

/Thread I mean, I know we should not blame and shame. Why? Essentially because it does not work. If you blame and shame you activate people's defenses, this reinforces denial. In short this is counter-productive. Ok.

BUT...

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This week-end, when I wasn't playing football with my kids, I found time to read this: a swedish anthology about how to reach a sustainable transport system.

Read it if you want to get 🤯🙄🧐

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trivector.se/hallbara-trans… All is said p23 with a quote from someone at the Swedish Transport Administration that seems to affirm the importance of the "climate question" and then comes this subtle body language indication: [Laugh].

I know. Of the importance of transcribing body language.

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I have noticed the repetition of the (connected) ideas of "doing sacrifices" and "being heroes" in campaigning for individual climate actions. Honestly I see where it comes from but I think it is wrong, both because they are bad sellers but also ethically problematic.

/Thread Sure individual actions can feel tough when you do make those choices, in good part because you are in a mourning process. But are they sacrifices? Are we heroes to do them? I really don't think so.

First because this mourning is not our end station...

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Of course we desperately need to act at all possible levels including working towards *systematic*
- boycotting of ecocidal corporations
- denunciation of power structures everywhere
- denunciation of inequalities & discrimination

But the system wants *you* to see yourself... as an individual so you feel disconnected from this system *you* have been made a part of, precisely to disempower you; so you remain blind to these power structures, inequalities & discrimination that are weaponized against us all; so you feel helpless & choose passivity...

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Every day I am talking with my kids about the environmental crisis. It is about what we eat, why we take public transportation, do not fly, it is about the birds, insects, flowers in our garden, etc...: the beauty, the destruction & its causes, our agency.

My kids are 3 and 5. They understand better than many adults. They care. And my 5 years old has a lot of questions. So we have multiple ongoing conversations to process all this. Often he asks: "but why do people do that if it is bad?" Good question I say. We take it slowly, step by step.

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6 police officers coming at 6 sitting rebels.
... What's happening next?
*Play scary music*

😄Yes, I am a normal rather young rather educated mother who never broke the law and I did this.

And here's why I will do it again.

/Thread Yes I did take part of this double blockade organized by @ExtinctionR_SV We were about 100 rebels blocking two places in the round about. Here's some info about this event - that has not been reported by any media (!!!!!).
klimataktion.se/2019/08/19/akt…

I did it! I spent 20 minutes presenting a ppt on "The phenomenology of Evil in the age of the climate crisis" in front of very smart people with a thing for psychoanalysis and philosophy...

What did they learn?
What did I learn?

/Thread Count on me for repeating that we are running towards mass murder of humanity... I did it like 10 times at least. That is actually tough to repeat it so much in front of people without defensively falling in cynical mode to avoid trembling... So I trembled. ...but did they?

While billionaires & so called liberalism try to guilt consumers putting the responsibility of any change on our shoulders...
It is tempting to reply that change can ONLY come through political action targeting those corporations & discount individual actions.

Disagreeing thread 2 First: yes, fossil fuel billionaires are cynical monsters who have spent billions in lobbying & spreading doubts to torch the planet without being disturbed - and to receive massive state subsidies doing that. They should be sued, dismantled & held accountable. Absolutely!