Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Climate Trauma Survival Tips - Does this seem familiar? It resonated for me ...

Coming out of the closet: My climate trauma (and yours?)

Posted by: Gillian Caldwell | May 4, 2009

I have spent my lifetime face to face with some of the most brutal and inhumane acts ever committed, but nothing has been as traumatizing for me as trying to get action to tackle the climate crisis.

As a long time human rights defender and prior Executive Director at WITNESS, I helped produce and direct films on rape as a weapon of war and amputations in Sierra Leone's recent bloody conflict, I conducted an undercover investigation into the Russian mafia's involvement in
trafficking women for forced prostitution, I investigated hit squads in apartheid South Africa, and I spent countless hours in editing rooms watching first hand images of death, destruction, and devastation.

But spending my days and nights trying to get our country to tackle global warming is more emotionally demanding than any job I have ever done .....

More at
http://www.1sky.org/blog/2009/05/coming-out-of-the-closet-my-climate-trauma-and-yours

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