Becoming woke to the climate crisis is a transformative human experience. For some the process happens over years, others weeks. No two people go through the process in the same way but it’s visceral and the emotion of it can be accessed at any time and can appear unannounced.
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Tapping into the emotion of that time of transformation is powerful. Some songs do that for me. A line of a poem. The smell of wood burning. A look in my kids face. Recognizing the pain in someone else’s eyes. Its easy to hide from the emotion. But more powerful to leverage it.
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This is a theme I'm seeing written and discussed on Twitter more and more. I wrote about poetry (and other things) here (btw, I took that Leonard Cohen quote and used it in my speech to Bezos):https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1129251162060812288 …
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Emily Cunningham @emahleeReading this thread made me cry. It's so much to take in what's happening to this precious planet. I didn't cry until I got to these Leonard Cohen lines: "We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye." https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1073162770286292993 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Oh, and I'm seeing almost exclusively women talk about the emotional aspect of the climate crisis and climate activism. Women are really leading in so many ways, including in this way.
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