Just finished this moments ago. A must read for all!

A gift and a curse

Which is why I’ve always been a little skeptical of folks who strongly identify with storm troopers 👀

In the wake of the Eaton Fire, I feel solastalgia. Grief is present and part of it. However, Solastalgia places that grief within the greater context of a warming climate. To articulate this emotion, will help guide our paths forward in shaping a better future going forward.

The feeling is as if you’re mourning a place you never left, and instead, it left you. The once reliable and familiar, is drastically changed and or unrecognizable.

It can be felt in more subtle ways, such as traditionally reliable weather patterns shifting and becoming erratic. And it can also be experienced over night, like in the wake of the Eaton and Palisades Fires, when entire towns were turned to ruins.

Solastalgia refers to one’s sense of loss or mourning in the wake of change to one’s environment or home, specifically as a result of climate driven disaster, industrial extraction or natural disaster.