What a beautifully written post! I completely empathise with your constant low-level sense of anxiety about the decline in biodiversity and that feeling of being trapped within a nebulous villain that we're reliant on in every aspect of life. Nebulous villain! I love that analogy. I've just been listening to a gorgeous programme on BBC Sounds about octopuses which, because of their bizarre nebulous form and sucker clad tentacles, have been used to represent awful, evil dangers (from posters depicting the spread of Nazi occupation to the logo of the dark Spectre organisation in the James Bond stories). Sorry, went off on a tangent there 😂. I'd never heard of Richard Mosse before but wow, so glad he's on my spectrum now. Those Enclave photographs where all plant life is filtered up as bright red are incredible and the infrared nocturnes look like scenes from the Avatar films. I really love his work, beautiful images underpinned with terrifyingly urgent warnings about climate change. Alexis Rockman's theories about how we are programmed to think relatively short term because we can’t conceive of the climate trauma coming down the road is bloody spot on. Another brilliant and thought provoking post to enjoy with my first coffee of the morning 😊
I've just listened to that BBC Earth documentary. The man who describes what will happen to New York...that's just amazing to think about. How quickly nature takes over and destroys civilisation. And then the fossil man. Wow! It's actually a relief to think about how all the damaging plastic in our natural world will just simply be reabsorbed back into the earth and broken down. It's amazing to look at the long view. It puts everything in perspective. The power of nature.
I also share your general sense of anxiety Victoria. It's all a bit scary. I'm a gardener and I have noticed the 'local expressions' of climate change in my back garden. My roses really shouldn't have been blooming in November. And there were way too many white flies just a couple of weeks ago. I also feel a bit helpless to know what I can do when I'm contributing to the problem. Sometimes I just think fuck it, there's nothing you can, it's so much bigger than any effort you can make. But then the next day I'm agonising over buying something wrapped in plastic that I know can't be recycled. It's a minefield.
What a beautifully written post! I completely empathise with your constant low-level sense of anxiety about the decline in biodiversity and that feeling of being trapped within a nebulous villain that we're reliant on in every aspect of life. Nebulous villain! I love that analogy. I've just been listening to a gorgeous programme on BBC Sounds about octopuses which, because of their bizarre nebulous form and sucker clad tentacles, have been used to represent awful, evil dangers (from posters depicting the spread of Nazi occupation to the logo of the dark Spectre organisation in the James Bond stories). Sorry, went off on a tangent there 😂. I'd never heard of Richard Mosse before but wow, so glad he's on my spectrum now. Those Enclave photographs where all plant life is filtered up as bright red are incredible and the infrared nocturnes look like scenes from the Avatar films. I really love his work, beautiful images underpinned with terrifyingly urgent warnings about climate change. Alexis Rockman's theories about how we are programmed to think relatively short term because we can’t conceive of the climate trauma coming down the road is bloody spot on. Another brilliant and thought provoking post to enjoy with my first coffee of the morning 😊
I've just listened to that BBC Earth documentary. The man who describes what will happen to New York...that's just amazing to think about. How quickly nature takes over and destroys civilisation. And then the fossil man. Wow! It's actually a relief to think about how all the damaging plastic in our natural world will just simply be reabsorbed back into the earth and broken down. It's amazing to look at the long view. It puts everything in perspective. The power of nature.
I also share your general sense of anxiety Victoria. It's all a bit scary. I'm a gardener and I have noticed the 'local expressions' of climate change in my back garden. My roses really shouldn't have been blooming in November. And there were way too many white flies just a couple of weeks ago. I also feel a bit helpless to know what I can do when I'm contributing to the problem. Sometimes I just think fuck it, there's nothing you can, it's so much bigger than any effort you can make. But then the next day I'm agonising over buying something wrapped in plastic that I know can't be recycled. It's a minefield.