As a veteran of the Environmental Public Health movement in the U.S./in fracking country, I paid dearly for the work I tried to do to link health effects and the devastating pollution of all sorts (noise, light, community fracturing, and of course toxic emissions) coming from fracking. I broke myself/it broke me, but I am healing. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn, and hold fast, and take care of yourself!
"They are in so many ways unstoppable, acting in deep love for the communities they are a part of, refusing to accept the status quo, swimming upstream and taking immense risks that many of us could never imagine. And yet, at the same time, they embody a pervasive spirit of surrender and acceptance. They seem to have the ability to simultaneously hold fast and to let go, to dig their heels in and to flow. ...
"It is clear that exemplars’ work contexts — whether due to the physical or emotional demands — are pressure cookers that nudge them over and over toward spaces of radical release and surrender."
It's just that people have to pick through plastic garbage in Kenya to get by, and many of them have lung disease due to breathing in micro-plastic dust. Much of the plastic isn't recyclable, which means it will just become a part of the mountains (literally) of plastic trash, which embeds into the environment - and human beings. This saddens me. Please don't use single-use plastic. I beg of you. Those close to the unendurable conditions pay the burden for those that benefit from the ease of plastics, far, far away.
As a veteran of the Environmental Public Health movement in the U.S./in fracking country, I paid dearly for the work I tried to do to link health effects and the devastating pollution of all sorts (noise, light, community fracturing, and of course toxic emissions) coming from fracking. I broke myself/it broke me, but I am healing. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn, and hold fast, and take care of yourself!
that is a powerful life experience, thank you for sharing and offering your care
This answer reminds me of insights from a project on exemplary people working on humanitarian issues (including climate). In case it's helpful to others, here's an excerpt of a blog post (https://crcc.usc.edu/the-radical-resistance-and-radical-acceptance-of-spiritual-exemplars/).
"They are in so many ways unstoppable, acting in deep love for the communities they are a part of, refusing to accept the status quo, swimming upstream and taking immense risks that many of us could never imagine. And yet, at the same time, they embody a pervasive spirit of surrender and acceptance. They seem to have the ability to simultaneously hold fast and to let go, to dig their heels in and to flow. ...
"It is clear that exemplars’ work contexts — whether due to the physical or emotional demands — are pressure cookers that nudge them over and over toward spaces of radical release and surrender."
It's just that people have to pick through plastic garbage in Kenya to get by, and many of them have lung disease due to breathing in micro-plastic dust. Much of the plastic isn't recyclable, which means it will just become a part of the mountains (literally) of plastic trash, which embeds into the environment - and human beings. This saddens me. Please don't use single-use plastic. I beg of you. Those close to the unendurable conditions pay the burden for those that benefit from the ease of plastics, far, far away.
Please don’t hold this against me, but I am reluctant to read this post because I am afraid of the pain it might cause me to process it.
I’m only human, after all.
When I am feeling strong, I will return.
we are here for whenever the time may be right to engage with it - important to pay attention to where your limits are at any one moment