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Hi Subscriber First Name, I’m curious about how you’re feeling about the hot and dry weather? Some people are loving the Mediterranean summer and others are sensing climate change is rapidly speeding up and becoming more visible and dangerous. Whatever your perspective, more people are talking about our changing climate. Wildfires, drought, hosepipe bans, failing crops. It's hard to miss. Unfortunately, the challenges we’re now facing aren’t much of a surprise to me as I've worked in the sustainability world for years. When I made the pivot from my corporate marketing career, I felt a duty to tell everyone what I was seeing. It was almost evangelical at times, and ultimately, exhausting. I've mellowed since. That shift happened when I noticed we're often encouraged to look at the symptoms (and blame each other) rather than the deeper systems that created them. Buy better. Eat better. Travel less. Recycle. Change your bank. Change your pension. Change your diet. All of these things can help, are important and are also a useful reminder that we can always do more. But how much more, living inside systems built on extraction, endless growth and constant war? So I’m angry at the people that create and maintain the systems, not the recipients of it. We're not the problem. At least, not the whole problem. A lot of what feels like personal failure is actually a symptom of something bigger - inequality and economic systems built to extract and to dysregulate our nervous systems, make us forget our magic and shrink our chance at a joyful life. So maybe it's time to be more radical in taking back our power?
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