Earth Grief: How to Cope with Losing Our Planet

How to cope with eco grief, eco anxiety and mourning the loss of nature on this dying planet.

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References
Revolutionary Left Radio Podcast, Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, Stan Rushworth
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, Cindy Milstein
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, Maggie Nelson
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, Oliver Burkeman
Wild: An Elemental Journey, Jay Griffiths
A Sideways Look At Time, Jay Griffiths
Climate Grief, Philosophy Tube
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
Tangled Roots: Dialogues Exploring Ecological Justice, Healing, and Decolonization, Matt Soltys
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief, Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Adrienne Maree Brown
Revleft radio: Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
2:04 – Part 01: Curiosity
3:35 – Part 02: The Sound of the Earth Crying
5:10 – Part 03: Communities of Mourning
6:59 – Part 04: Political Grief
8:31 – Part 05: Consolidating Caring
10:24 – Part 06: Apocalypse
12:43 – Part 07: Radical Acceptance
14:49 – Part 08: Listening to Nature
16:43 – Part 09: Reciprocity
19:21 – Part 10: Awe
23:03 – Part 11: Final Thoughts

Earth grief, eco anxiety, eco grief, grieving over nature, grieving over the planet, how to deal with it, how to cope with it.
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[comradescar]

As an Alaskan it is insane I’m only 22 and go to see the glacier a lot and like every time it’s been a month or longer since I last saw it it’s fallen apart noticeably more and like it builds a lot of regret too because I didn’t appreciate it enough

[rebeccawardall]

I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center about a year ago, and that has helped me a lot. That and books like Braiding Sweetgrass have helped me in building confidence in the human ability to nurture nature, despite the destruction we've caused. It has connected me with other people who deeply love wildlife and the planet, who want to protect it. It's still hard to see animals who've been impacted by human activity, but the fact that there is a group of people actively trying their best to combat that impact, and even make a positive one, brings me a lot of happiness. Thank you for this lovely video.

[aymanhasan-]

As a person who Lives in the Egyptian Nile Delta who fear rising sea levels, i need this video.

[mustie]

i have been dealing with climate grief for the past 2 months, and really intensely the past 2 weeks. a lot of what you said resonates with me, and I get a lot of what you said and needed to hear it, but I can’t help but feel like gathering a mass movement of civil disobedience is our only option..and I feel like a debate bro saying that in response to your video lol. I am just really mentally suffering with the horrific reality that our political inaction will just lead the rich to destroy the earth. It’s just that it’s so unnecessary to succumb to the giving up narrative and that we can just all give up, when clearly nations in other countries managed to mobilise.. then again this is a video about grief.. I am just speechless at reality

[comradescar]

I honestly avoided this video cuz it’s hella painful but I’m glad I finally clicked on it

[vil]

0:52 I feel you, it happens to me too. Doing the groceries for me is always a consciously repressed nightmare

[Mexie]

Thank you for putting words to the grief we’re all feeling (and likely suppressing.. I am anyway). Great video ❤️

[beebsalad]

This video is so beautiful and helpful. Thank you for making this. Before I watched the complete video, I wrote a little rant on my own earth grief.

I relate to this so hard. Sometimes I feel this overwhelming sense of panic or dread. I do what I can to be less wasteful, but will metaphorically beat myself up if I find myself using disposables because I don’t have the spoons or executive function to do dishes. Then when I see corporations pollute the earth and Kylie Jenner take a private jet for a short trip, I wonder why even bother? But I can’t not bother. Even if it’s tiny, I want/NEED to do something.

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[Leftistattheparty]

<3
Not only is the content that you are providing excellent but the delivery with your voice, quotes and just general vibe make this video an A+.
I hope this blows your channel up because people need to see and hear this message.

It reminds me of my experience when I watched "Don't look up". It perfectly captured the anxiety and burnout I have felt throughout my years of environmental activism.

[hollyexley]

Appreciate how open you are about your climate grief Kathrin- I resonated with a lot of what you were describing. I find the grief extremely isolating sometimes; the closest people to me do not understand. But I do find some solace in civil resistance. There are some incredibly brave, determined people out there, going to prison and putting themselves in scary and unpleasant situations to hold power to account. I am so motivated by them, although I am much less brave! My skills are in art but I feel it's not so crucial at this time - what is crucial is using my body as a tool in the path of destruction. I hope more will join us.

[unlearningeconomics]

This is a great and unique antidote to doomerism, thank you

[mailg]

Thanks Kathrin, you have a wonderful gift in delivering an uplifting message to such a perilous situation our Earth is facing. I'm happy to support you on patreon.

[justsmilelaet]

This video spoke to me. Deeply. Thank you!

[lauren]

I think I'll spend my days caring for the Earth by planting trees, feeding animals. I plan on homesteading so it's the least I can do since I encroached on their lands. Even when I was on my college campus and I saw squirrels everyone would always say don't feed them and I was like well I'm pretty sure this campus used to be a forest the least we can do is feed them since they bulldozed it for higher academia.

[River_Living]

This is a big help to so many of us! Thank you.

[gitchygitchyyaya]

I keep crying about the butterflies. Idk why it’s breaking my heart so much but it is

[michaelrock]

Needed this today because of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires...
Its so sad that a popular destination for tourists has been turned into a climate change disaster zone... I fear that with Trump as our president, we wont live a full life... I'm very young and i am scared for my future...

[NunSuperior]

I live in Los Angeles and we are out of water, again.

Many (most?) of our eco problems are human made. This isn't some unstoppable meteor. We made these problems. We can, and will, solve them. It's more about political will than technology or cost.

[TomHuckACAB]

Tardigrades will get through. And the Earth will endure for millions more years. Plenty of time to get over how dumb humanity as a collective turned out to be.

[CatherineKlein]

Can’t wait to watch! I’ve become such a doomer 😭