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Richard Bergson's avatar

A really good analogy. I’ve been watching a lot of content around regenerative farming recently (the more sciencey and how to stuff) and there is undoubtedly a huge contribution to carbon mitigation but perhaps more importantly developing resilience in landscapes, producing food that is truly nutritious and creating a hydrological cycle that will create and retain water, reducing the need for irrigation. There will be pain , I’m sure, and there is no glossing over that. How we respond to it will determine whether we grow as human beings and live or fight each other and die.

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Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Wow, this is such a vivid story, all the more affecting for its truth. Thank you.

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Glenn Bark's avatar

Love the analogy with the fever. If you don’t mind, I think I’ll try to work that into one (or some) of my lectures at the uni. Best of luck with the writing!

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Nisha Mody's avatar

So true and an incredible analogy I wish our leaders knew. I suppose change will come in one way or another. Lately I think so much about how I’m spending my life from an interdependent and ecological perspective, and I try to connect that to how I’m tending to relationships. Because no matter what, how we relate to each other will influence how we respond to all this change.

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Lesley's avatar

Beautifully written and darkly powerful! Thankyou Rachel

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Sophia Pinto Thomas's avatar

Very poetic piece here, your words are compelling and more than timely. If I send this to my friends they'll be annoyed with me, the pesky climate-anxious activist, but you've captured something so fundamental that I'm touched to my core. Thank you

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Andrew Carmichael's avatar

I live in the forest ; solar power, rainwater, satellite wifi, garden, coffee and cream. I'm lucky. This beautiful world, dark clouds rolling in.

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Rebecca Kowalski's avatar

powerful and beautiful as ever

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Matthew McCombs's avatar

The orientation on heat and temperature is so powerful, invaluable. Thank you.

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Zippy's avatar

It could be said that if this outfit http://www.project2025.org gains the necessary power to enforce its multiple agendas then the fever that you refer to will be turbo-charged on steroids

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A Wild Green Heart's avatar

That's an incredibly incisive story and metaphor, Rachel. The connections between our own bodies and the Greater Body we inhabit are so strong, and always instructive. Thank you so much for writing and sharing this 🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

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Alistair McKee's avatar

May golden Ariadne threads of subscribers guide the young enchanter Eleutheria ( ἐλεύθερος ) answering Earth's

calling on an ancient traderoute island of Earthsea. Steps she now through the immense maze of modern BS to demystify and so disarm the carnivorous dragon Ozymandias with its crumbling feet of clay and its lies for human sacrifice, it's consumption of living landscapes and its radical petroctomy of Earth's ancient body.

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