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How thinking hyperlocally can help you manage climate anxiety

Are we redeemable? Humans, I mean. Up until the last few years, if you asked me this question, I would have answered, “Of course!” But now, the certainty of this response has been whittled down into uneasy silence. I’m not so sure anymore. Any student of history will tell you with alacrity the multiple and ongoing atrocities humans have engaged in over the millennia. Almost from the beginning of organized society, we have been murdering and torturing our fellow sapiens with glee. I’m sure hominids and neanderthals also took to clobbering each other whenever the opportunity arose. But despite the recorded evidence, I’ve always believed that deep in its heart of hearts, humanity wanted to be good, helpful, kind, considerate. I’m not sure I believe this any longer. Art hasn’t changed this. It has cemented it more firmly. A new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery takes the relationship between art and the environment as its animating idea. But in examining the concept, something else surges to the fore. Namely, that we’ve made a nightmare of things. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change features 35 works drawn from the last quarter century. It is a big show...

Eco-empathy: a photographic exploration of solastalgia—is a photographic series that reflects on the felt response to the human-induced climate change in our present Anthropocene era.

Good Grief Network offers 10-week peer support groups where sharing feelings of climate distress and grief fights despair.

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Experts say CleanBC has gone up in smoke.