“We’ve got the technology and know-how to change the world, but technology alone won’t change us. It begins with a change in attitude…”
~ Bill Nye, the “science guy”When we change our attitude from denial to acceptance that climate change is real, we can resolve it. We need strong action to kick our fossil fuel addiction.
The Five Changes of Climate Grief
National Geographic (2015)
Film Review
The Five Changes of Climate Grief is a humorous documentary in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a psychiatrist and Bill Nye the Science Guy plays himself as the latter grapples with climate denial (not the kind Exxon pays for but the personal kind all of us experience).
The main premise of the film is that all of us experience some degree of grief in confronting the enormity of the climate crisis. Thus all of us must work through the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – as we collectively struggle to find a solution.
The video has some great footage of the ecological devastation caused by Canadian tar sands mining and processing , as well as beach front properties on the Florida coast that are already uninhabitable due to rising sea levels.
I was delighted…
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Three Worlds One Vision 
Exactly it begins with ourselves.. xx
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I worry more about the buildup of environmental toxins, like plastics, more than about climate change. That we Americans continue in our shamefully wasteful ways is an insult to the rest of the planet. I’ve carried a collection of linen and other re-usable shopping bags in my car for years and use them whenever I shop. Still, only about 5-10 percent of other shoppers (according to cashiers) bring their own bags. Also, I carry a metal thermal cup with me. It’s hothothot in Savannah, so I always have water or coffee in it. How many bottles of water go through the grocery check-out lines? Where do those bottles end up? In landfill. And hot plastic leaches way more harmful chemicals than tap water, no matter what the doomsayers claim.
Boycott packaging as much as possible, is all I gotta say, but for this: If we don’t watch we’re dumping our shit, your children (I didn’t propagate) will be eating plastic out of landfill long before the climate changes enough to cook us.
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Katharine, I also share your concern about plastics in our environment. The use of plastic bags in supermarkets and drug stores was banned in California and replaced with paid paper bags or the use of durable bags on sale. However, there’s a chance this ban may be overturned in our November 8, 2016 ballot as a veto referendum. (Check out link below.) Our struggle against polluters to protect our environment never ends.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Plastic_Bag_Ban_Referendum,_Proposition_67_(2016)
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My method is to talk up how great canvas re-usables are, that entrepreneurs could make a lot of money making and selling reusables. If it became a “trendy” to carry a collection of designer shopping bags, and to use them in shopping, we wouldn’t need the bans. I’ve made several such bags and given them away for presents. Cotton is a Georgia product, but cotton farmers have been exporting it to China and importing acrylic instead. Huh? How’s that again?
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Katharine, there are also attractive hand woven baskets available.
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There are lots of things available, so it’s a market waiting to be developed by creative entrepreneurs. Since I am a capitalist–in the free sense of the word–I prefer for the private sector to provide solutions that save me trouble and taxes. More bureaucracy is not the answer.
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Thanks for reblogging.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger as a psychiatrist! Surely that is the funniest part of all.
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Perhaps 🙂 In California, he was a very progressive governor in terms of dealing with climate change issues.
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