yea... I know what you're talking about. this realization that there's no guaranteed safety, no escape, no real way to hide from it all, used to give me panic attacks. I've reached a place of calm acceptance over a couple of years but... yeah, I also wish there was something to run away to. we can build something adequate, shelter from these coming storms, but the reality that it will never be perfectly safe and we will never escape the need to defend it profoundly scares me. that's true whether we find ourselves able to try and fight this politically or whether we're forced to seek smaller groups of our own, to build our own communities, to ensure our immediate needs.
but I also think that is our best path forward in truth. if protecting ourselves politically becomes truly impossible, especially as climate change balkanizes everything, then the only thing we can do is turn to each other and find refuge in communities that we will have to build and to defend.
the truth is, there isn't actually safety, even as a cis person. we just have to grapple with that reality sooner and more viscerally than they do but we're looking at whole system collapse on account of climate change. being cis makes many things easier - but it's a difference of degree, not kind.
Maybe some day I’ll be strong enough to help defend people like me and a space that accepts us
yea... I know what you're talking about. this realization that there's no guaranteed safety, no escape, no real way to hide from it all, used to give me panic attacks. I've reached a place of calm acceptance over a couple of years but... yeah, I also wish there was something to run away to. we can build something adequate, shelter from these coming storms, but the reality that it will never be perfectly safe and we will never escape the need to defend it profoundly scares me. that's true whether we find ourselves able to try and fight this politically or whether we're forced to seek smaller groups of our own, to build our own communities, to ensure our immediate needs.
but I also think that is our best path forward in truth. if protecting ourselves politically becomes truly impossible, especially as climate change balkanizes everything, then the only thing we can do is turn to each other and find refuge in communities that we will have to build and to defend.
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the truth is, there isn't actually safety, even as a cis person. we just have to grapple with that reality sooner and more viscerally than they do but we're looking at whole system collapse on account of climate change. being cis makes many things easier - but it's a difference of degree, not kind.
sooner than you think :heart-sickle: