The founder of Climate Critical Earth would find much to admire in Joseph, the earliest economic statesman. He put the farmers on the relief rolls! When the drought ended, they got their land back, at very low rent. Joseph prepared for the whims of nature, and the founder of Climate Critical Earth also realizes we must prepare for the whims of nature - that we have freedom to act, yet
our freedom to act has little if any effect on the planet, the solar cycles of the sun, etc. It is important to accept this paradox, and realize that logic cannot solve the mystery. Joseph's greatness is in a large measure due to his awareness that he is serving a higher destiny.
Thomas Mann said, "Joseph is the ideal manifested, as the union of darkness and light, feeling and mind, the primitive and the civilized, wisdom and the happy heart - in short, as the humanized mystery we call man." Exploring burnout in the climate movement reveals, in the words of the founder, "So basically everyone is toasted." It appears that the safe spaces, the "continuous rest retreats," and the "unusually generous amounts of time off," are not enough for this organization. We must remind ourselves that the struggle for human identity in a precarious, brute life is a universal struggle, and not be so self-focused that all we can observe is so-called "burn-out." Those of us who do physical labor, real work in the real world, see no merit in this.
The founder of Climate Critical Earth would find much to admire in Joseph, the earliest economic statesman. He put the farmers on the relief rolls! When the drought ended, they got their land back, at very low rent. Joseph prepared for the whims of nature, and the founder of Climate Critical Earth also realizes we must prepare for the whims of nature - that we have freedom to act, yet
our freedom to act has little if any effect on the planet, the solar cycles of the sun, etc. It is important to accept this paradox, and realize that logic cannot solve the mystery. Joseph's greatness is in a large measure due to his awareness that he is serving a higher destiny.
Thomas Mann said, "Joseph is the ideal manifested, as the union of darkness and light, feeling and mind, the primitive and the civilized, wisdom and the happy heart - in short, as the humanized mystery we call man." Exploring burnout in the climate movement reveals, in the words of the founder, "So basically everyone is toasted." It appears that the safe spaces, the "continuous rest retreats," and the "unusually generous amounts of time off," are not enough for this organization. We must remind ourselves that the struggle for human identity in a precarious, brute life is a universal struggle, and not be so self-focused that all we can observe is so-called "burn-out." Those of us who do physical labor, real work in the real world, see no merit in this.