Why Tackling Climate Change Is An Act Of Love
Rather than being a terrifying problem, climate change is a lesson in how to create a different kind of civilisation - as long as you meet it with love.
Tackling climate change is an act of love. It requires us to transform and expand our conscious awareness of who and what we are - from 'separate', competing entities to realising that we are one people.
That we are one planet - and hidden in this is the realisation that we are nature.
All life is one and we are all in this together.
That is the lesson that climate scientists are learning and sharing with us as they study the problem and learn more and more about how nature and the planet works as a result.
Tackling climate change is therefore an act of love because in order to do it, we have to cultivate care and compassion for people all over the world both in the present and in future generations.
We have to act from a position of care and of love for all non-human life both here and now and in the future too.
Fear is not going to get us there.
Fear is a necessary wake up call but that’s all.
Once fear has woken us up to the scale of the predicament we are in, it is love that will fuel our transition to a different world, a different kind of economy and the different kinds of values that so many in the environmental movement have been calling for, for so long.
Fear is draining, depleting and consuming.
Love is self-sustaining. It is at the heart of how nature works, which is this: life creates conditions conducive to life.
That’s why when you take our egos out the way and look at nature as it truly is, it is full of love and creativity with all the parts of an ecosystem being competely interwoven and mutually reinforcing.
Love is therefore abundant and ever present in all things.
It’s just that our own shit gets in the way.
What’s happening right now with climate change is a slap in the face to wake us up, to get our shit together so that we can collectively act out of love and kindness in order to build the world we need.
And to be sure, there is plenty to be scared of in the present and the years ahead.
But the point is to face it in order to learn from it and change, not to turn away and keep doing what we’ve always done.
Once we face our fears, they lose their power. And once we offer our fears love, they vanish completely.
The sooner we meet the end of this civilisation with love, the sooner we will be able to create the one that’s next because on the other side of the lessons that climate change is teaching us, is an ecological civilisation waiting to be born.
When we see the lesson in our suffering, our awareness expands and we find solutions to problems that we previously couldn’t see.
We grow.
So, to tackle climate change we have to face our fears and grow as individuals and as societies and we have to do it together.
As long as we are willing to grow and learn, responding to climate change doesn’t need be a terrifying, gruelling and a painful experience - it can instead be a beautiful and rewarding challenge to change how we see ourselves, nature and the future of civilisation.
Are you ready? Good ;) Because it’s already started.
With Love,
Rob