{"id":2633,"date":"2012-06-06T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2012-06-10T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T01:06:29","slug":"realistic-optimism-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/realistic-optimism-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Realistic Optimism and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
Roger Blobaum once told me there would only be twenty-nine questions that book talk audiences would ask and once I\u2019d been asked them all book promotion would be a cinch.<\/p>\n
Apparently I haven\u2019t reached the magic number yet, as each time there is one question that surprises me and catches me without a thought out reply. At a recent Turn Here Sweet Corn <\/em>book talk an audience member asked, \u201cHow do you keep from getting discouraged about climate change?\u201d<\/p>\n I talked about not having expectations and then tacked on a short bit about organic systems sequestering 15-28% more carbon. But I wasn\u2019t satisfied; it felt like an incomplete answer, and it has been turning in my mind ever since.<\/p>\n Taking Care Of Our Emotional Selves<\/strong><\/p>\n It is important that we take care of our emotional selves as we work to care for and protect life. Sometimes we become narrowly focused on the magnitude of the problems and the force of the opposition, or we expect quick change. We forget to look for and notice the good and the progress, we become discouraged, or even worse apathy threatens.<\/p>\n Sometimes moving forward looks and feels like moving backward, and sometimes success takes a very long time. It took 70 years for women to gain the right to vote. The original organizers were no longer alive to celebrate the day of signing. Progress has been made on segregation, but the work on civil rights, equality, and racism is huge, and will\u00a0 continue for a long time.<\/p>\n