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Ed Yong@edyong209.bsky.social |
This is so real. I’ve reported on this over the years in many forms. Coral reef scientists. Conservationists caring for endlings. Public health workers in the pandemic. Journalists covering all the above. The people bearing witness are not okay.
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Dr Procrastibaker
@drtwillett.bsky.social
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💔
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Damien Meadows
@damienmeadows.bsky.social
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So many of us are bearing witness. For anyone in doubt, Olafur Eliasson’s glacier melt series is on display in Brussels, and shows the changes in Iceland over just 20 years (1999-2019)
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@rmazar.bsky.social
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Thank you for seeing this and for being someone who bears witness. Having someone else acknowledge one’s moral injury & grief helps. Don’t Look Up captures this feeling of impotence within a culture of ignorance so well. While watching it mid-pandemic, my physician husband and I felt seen finally.
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AJ Van Belle, they/them, author & destroyer of spaceships
@ajvanbelle.bsky.social
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After teaching undergrad climate science classes for years, it became clear I only had one main message for these hopeful groups of 18yos: we know what's happening. We know what to do about it. And the people in power won't do it.
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Kirk Murphy
@kirkmurphy.bsky.social
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I started helping non-violent environmental activists in 90's with medical support (I'm a trauma psychiatrist). Even with successes such as Headwaters Forest, my peeps increasingly mourn what is disappearing before them...all too often exactly what they had warned of long before. Endling trauma.
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Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
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What’s an endling?
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD
@tomkimmerer.bsky.social
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I don’t disagree with either of you, but as @katharinehayhoe.com and Rebecca Solnit keep reminding us, we don’t have the luxury of being pessimistic about our future, because despair favors inaction.
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Kay Ri
@kayri.bsky.social
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Hi, from the preventing mass gender violence Cassandras. 🤦🏻🤷🏻😭
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Dave Mana
@davemana.bsky.social
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As an environmental scientist, I can confirm. It's a mix of anger and desolation. We did all we could, we got the data, we see the increasing signs, why don't they listen? And also, why they do not respect all the year I dedicated to this?
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👾Jasmin Schreiber
@tiredmegafauna.com
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Yeah, I wrote a long text about the feeling. It often feels just too much to bear.
bsky.app/profile/tire...
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Sara - Covid is Airborne
@wearamask.bsky.social
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1/2 How can you be okay when you‘ve been witnessing the (ongoing) gaslighting around this virus and at the same time seeing how many people died and got disabled from it? I had high hopes that after this #MECFS and #LongCovid would get enough funding to finally find a treatment.
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Floridaman Fella
@thehillshaveayes.bsky.social
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Thank you so much. I worked for the state of FL on the COVID Task Force as an Epi.
The cruelty and suffering tarnish your soul.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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Aldo Leopold, 1949
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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Grief over things already lost Grief over things that cannot now be saved Grief over things that could be saved, but that one can see will not be saved.
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Lindsey Shultz
@lshultz82.bsky.social
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On my- the word “endling” 🥺
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Dr Vanessa
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
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I’ve also heard this amongst historians - you feel like you’re telling the same stories over and over, the medicalisation of normality for profit, eugenics, othering, genocide. I know people who’ve withdrawn from policy & pub eng because it feels so futile and depressing.
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NOLA.Leyda
@nolaleyda.bsky.social
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Add to that land and resource management agency employees. Silviculturists, biologists, oceanographers, etc.
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Jack Craw
@jackcraw.bsky.social
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Yep. Friends are burnt out. Walling up. Making compost instead of headlines. Increasingly relying on the young and tougher
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Iron Curtain (Samuel Abram)
@ironcurtainyc.bsky.social
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If you want to know why I support #landback, it's not primarily for reparative justice (though that is a reason), it's primary so colonized lands could be returned to the people who will best take care of it.
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
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It’s not as serious as the climate crisis, but I know many of us in the communities who’ve been warning about the rise of fascism amongst the tech/finance tycoons, especially those who control social media, have gone through similar trauma. We can get media to report, but no action.
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DaveAnthony
@daveanthony.bsky.social
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About 10 years ago I read about a coral reef scientist who just sat down on the reef and broke down sobbing in the waves.
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Jim Whittington🔥
@jimwhittington.bsky.social
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Wildland firefighters.
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Gabe Moshenska
@gabemoshenska.bsky.social
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Drug policy researchers might be interesting comparison. Years of being told to their faces that their findings are politically unacceptable, while deaths pile up.
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Shira Stein
@shiramstein.com
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This is quite literally why I had to leave health care reporting. The trauma of it all was destroying me.
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Rachel Hale
@seafloorscience.bsky.social
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It flicks between extreme frustration and extreme anxiety.
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@cmandin.bsky.social
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Makes me think of this slide.
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Dwight Williams (💉x 8) + 😷
@dewline.bsky.social
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And this outcome was planned out to be inflicted upon these people. Planned.
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Seentoomuch
@seentoomuch.bsky.social
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It's true. Working in a hospital was surreal when people just decided they were done caring about the spread. We all just knew what it meant for us from a workload standpoint, and could do nothing about it. There's a reason we're almost all still so short staffed
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Erika Hope
@femchaosdragon.bsky.social
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Is the world doomed yet? Just need to know whether I should keep trying to quit drinking.
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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery
@disasterqueer.bsky.social
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Same goes for the emergency managers.
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Noh, Bodhi
@nohbodhi.bsky.social
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So many people won't act because huge corporations, governments, and religion tell them everything is just fine. Morons!
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Gregg Levine
@greggjlevine.bsky.social
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As #4 above, I second that emotion.
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Mickey McManus
@mickeymcmanus.bsky.social
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Apathy, agency, and emergence are the intersecting aspects I sometimes think. How to fight apathy, feel agency and trust emergence. I think science communicators are critical because scientists sometimes think the facts speak for themselves but humans don’t do things based on facts.
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Alex Ries
@alexriesart.bsky.social
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Inertia, denial and outright malice?
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@truebluebroad.bsky.social
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oceans boiling. fish dying. our oxygen, too. ice melting, cities drowning. fires, fuckin' fire everywhere. and what we doing? havin' world war 3! we'll be mid punch stopped by frozen daggers and hotter 'n lava, world disappeared under our feet! FUCKIN FIRE!!
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sagebiel
@aiformal.bsky.social
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Josh Crews
@joshcrewsreally.bsky.social
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As a nurse I can feel this very much.
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Paul - 🗿🌻😷💉
@ingmba.bsky.social
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Even for non-scientist, environmentally-aware ppl, when you've voted based on environmental policy for 25+ years and essentially nothing gets done, even when green(er) candidates win... it's hard to see the point of anything...
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Luis M
@luismschang.bsky.social
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Please conduct a similar experiment with virologists....
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DrT, PhD
@drt.bsky.social
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When i was a prof my lab studied biodiversity loss. as i was switching my research focus to human food webs i started getting sick. A few years later i had severe #mecfs. Co-founding @remissionbiome with @tessfalor.bsky.social has if anything increased the toll exponentially. Endlings.
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Reader of Entrails
@haruspex.bsky.social
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As a person whose profession is at the intersection of conservation and public health, this is so real. It’s exhausting and demoralizing. And we cannot wait for Gen Z to get the power to save us. That’s decades too late. More needs doing now, but we’re all so tired and disempowered. 💔
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Stephen Boisvert
@srboisvert.bsky.social
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I feel this as a bird photography hobbyist. It's always in the back of mind that I am documenting the accelerating collapse of a hundred species.
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Kai
@kaikronfield.bsky.social
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Some of the on-air journos I’ve seen the past few weeks seem absolutely shattered. The things they must be witnessing 💔
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Temple Drake
@templedrake.bsky.social
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I am bearing witness w/o the degree. It sucks for everyone who lives in reality.
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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A number of brilliant climate scientists I know have switched to working on climate solutions. I think this is one way of coping.
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Jen Stewart
@jstewgie.bsky.social
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It'd be more surprising if they WERE okay. I wish more people were able and willing to care about things beyond their own immediate self-interest.
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Cowbo Bebo irl
@dochaus.bsky.social
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Sadly, our future is not Star Trek, or even Blade Runner, but closer to The Water Knife.
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Beadle, Society for the New Art
@saraht74.bsky.social
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David Buckel...
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@no9.bsky.social
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This sentence says it all: „you have enough info from us“. Unlike those scientists big oil uses actual science (psychology, marketing, etc) to convince people. Scientists don’t, they just bombard the audience with boring facts. If scientists would also use science it would be very different.
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Brian Banks Ⓥ
@brianbanks.bsky.social
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Me, too. The most traumatic accounts that stick with me were bat biologists coming upon hibernacula where white nose syndrome had wiped out whole colonies, and marine biologists travelling on bottom trawlers doing research on bycatch.
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