Sustainabile has been - and is - an outstanding contribution to a discussion that just isn't happening, but that desperately needs to.
You have laid yourself bare in the public domain with humility, insight, honesty and courage. Taken a risk, crossed a threshold, accepted the adventure and its unknowable outcomes.
I have been largely silent as your posts have emerged, for exactly the reasons you have described. I am part - at least in part - of the very fabric of self-serving environmentalism myself. Bills to pay, etc. Complicit.
So I have lived through you vicariously in this public endeavour . This is my confession to cowardice, which is the very least I can do to honour your work.
I think this cowardice might also be why so many people have not commented or engaged with the blog publicly, as it has unfolded? That, in itself, is a profound thing. It calls people like me out into the open, creates dissonance, movement. I'm still feeling my way in the new darkness of that. But you have definitely challenged me to step into the light, however glaring and uncomfortable. To being more honest about how I really feel and what, after nearly 30 years of professional environmentalism, I know to be true.
Now I just need to find the same courage that you have shown here ... if I don't first explode into a billion bits from the repression of my own cynicism.
You’ve got it just right Andy. Everything, is ending. Civilisation is already breaking down in places. The supply chain is already collapsing and health services are struggling. Look at tech stocks this last month. Inflation. Wild fires. Floods. Wars. This is how it will be now. A managed withdrawal is personal so do what you’ve been thinking you’d do and do it now.
I just expected it to happen more rapidly. How can your readers argue with you when we are in agreement.
Be brave though. Take back control of your life and stay well.
Andy - we know that change needs to happen, the fear probably has something to do with the magnitude of that change. We all experience a type of myopia when it comes to our collective future.
I think your right about:
"Maybe the potential for a managed withdrawal from the inherently unsustainable industrialised civilization?"
It's either that or the dystopian future that many a movie has portrayed.
Thanks for these posts Andy - it is all such a mess. Very hard to know how to play it. Maybe all the confusion will lead to something positive. At least it is better than not being confused, and assuming we are on the right track and/or can stay on the right track without the messy business of caring and engaging.
I really admire your courage, integrity and holistic perspective. We're all navigating unchartered territory, we need to support each other however we can.
I'd love to have a beer with you some day, perhaps along with our mutual Siberian friend whose name I won't mention in the interests of her privacy.
Keep at this as long as it is as rewarding as the sacrifices it costs you.
I admire your analysis, integrity and courage. So few can 'own' our mistakes.
Sustainabile has been - and is - an outstanding contribution to a discussion that just isn't happening, but that desperately needs to.
You have laid yourself bare in the public domain with humility, insight, honesty and courage. Taken a risk, crossed a threshold, accepted the adventure and its unknowable outcomes.
I have been largely silent as your posts have emerged, for exactly the reasons you have described. I am part - at least in part - of the very fabric of self-serving environmentalism myself. Bills to pay, etc. Complicit.
So I have lived through you vicariously in this public endeavour . This is my confession to cowardice, which is the very least I can do to honour your work.
I think this cowardice might also be why so many people have not commented or engaged with the blog publicly, as it has unfolded? That, in itself, is a profound thing. It calls people like me out into the open, creates dissonance, movement. I'm still feeling my way in the new darkness of that. But you have definitely challenged me to step into the light, however glaring and uncomfortable. To being more honest about how I really feel and what, after nearly 30 years of professional environmentalism, I know to be true.
Now I just need to find the same courage that you have shown here ... if I don't first explode into a billion bits from the repression of my own cynicism.
Thanks, Andy.
You’ve got it just right Andy. Everything, is ending. Civilisation is already breaking down in places. The supply chain is already collapsing and health services are struggling. Look at tech stocks this last month. Inflation. Wild fires. Floods. Wars. This is how it will be now. A managed withdrawal is personal so do what you’ve been thinking you’d do and do it now.
I just expected it to happen more rapidly. How can your readers argue with you when we are in agreement.
Be brave though. Take back control of your life and stay well.
Andy - we know that change needs to happen, the fear probably has something to do with the magnitude of that change. We all experience a type of myopia when it comes to our collective future.
I think your right about:
"Maybe the potential for a managed withdrawal from the inherently unsustainable industrialised civilization?"
It's either that or the dystopian future that many a movie has portrayed.
Go well Sir!
Thanks for these posts Andy - it is all such a mess. Very hard to know how to play it. Maybe all the confusion will lead to something positive. At least it is better than not being confused, and assuming we are on the right track and/or can stay on the right track without the messy business of caring and engaging.
Awesome work mate. Cant wait to read more in the future. :)
I really admire your courage, integrity and holistic perspective. We're all navigating unchartered territory, we need to support each other however we can.
I'd love to have a beer with you some day, perhaps along with our mutual Siberian friend whose name I won't mention in the interests of her privacy.
Keep at this as long as it is as rewarding as the sacrifices it costs you.
I admire your analysis, integrity and courage. So few can 'own' our mistakes.
I have only just found you...