We will never win a fight against climate change.

Because herein lies a big problem - We’re fighting ourselves.

The climate fight, the battle against climate change, combatting climate change, I hear this everywhere.

I don’t think this is helpful.

Because herein lies a big problem.

We’re fighting ourselves.

Extreme climate is a by-product of extreme civilisation.

We are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.
We are the weather.

“We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand within it” said someone very wise - Chief Seattle.

If I stand by a tree and breathe out, the tree breathes in CO2 from me.

When I breathe in, I’m breathing in oxygen from the tree.

Where do I end and where does the tree begin?

I am interconnected, intimately entangled with the living Earth.

I ‘inter am’ as they say at Plum Village.

What if instead of putting all our energy into ‘fighting’ the climate, we diverted some of it into slowing down.

Learning to listen to the living Earth around us and noticing the climate as an expression of life on this planet.

Less fighting, more caring for the Earth and all its beings, including ourselves and each other.

Is your work in fight mode or care mode?