It’s called “environmental amnesia” and it’s an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but it’s been something that’s happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you don’t see how large they are because you don’t personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.
[image: tweet by @/grandmagrit reading,
We never used to have a “fire season”. It was called autumn and we wore sweaters in October. We didn’t have multi year droughts. The lakes were full and snow on the mountain tops. Don’t normalize climate crisis. It’s not normal.
Me seeing this for the 14th time in my 5 years on tumblr and seeing more notes and comments but still reblogging it since it’s literally a World Heritage Post
Sometimes Brits forget that a massive portion of America has A LOT OF HEAT. There is no question if you live in the south you need cold drinks, and I know the weather is getting hotter over there too- maybe try the iced tea my good dudes.
UGH is is literally so much to ask that I have time and money to learn how to tailor clothes and embroider and knit and make cakes and bake bread and do makeup and hair and nails and do all my own diy projects around the house and
like I know this is probably so hard to make but my brain says I could do that and I need to do that
btw since this I have been beautifully and painfully trying to learn to cook, crochet, sew, paint etc and oh boy am I mediocre at a bunch of things but I’m having fun
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.
*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep
I hadn’t realised that Matariki may actually be the first indigenous festival to be made into a public holiday (by a colonial government, I assume that means) in the world. I’m watching a discussion at work about the ceremonies associated with the occasion, and hearing that last year’s national hautapu ceremony was watched by more people than live in Aotearoa! - because indigenous people around the world, on other continents, watched with interest and solidarity with Māori. That’s cool - I hope it becomes a great example other peoples can point to.
For the first time ever, New Zealand is celebrating Matariki as a Public Holiday!
It’s so exciting and wonderful, in my opinion
Matariki is both the name of a star cluster (also known as Pleiades or the seven sisters) and of the celebration of it first rising in the sky. It marks the start of the New Year in the Māori lunar calender.
It is a time of coming together, reflecting, and as with all big human holidays, sharing kai (food). I’m really happy our government has decided to finally officially recognise this major holiday of our mana whenua.
Matariki is the star that signifies reflection, hope, our connection to the environment, and the gathering of people. Matariki is also connected to the health and wellbeing of people.
Waitī is associated with all fresh water bodies and the food sources that are sustained by those waters.
Waitā is associated with the ocean, and food sources within it.
Waipuna-ā-rangi is associated with the rain.
Tupuānuku is the star associated with everything that grows within the soil to be harvested or gathered for food.
Tupuārangi is associated with everything that grows up in the trees: fruits, berries, and birds.
Ururangi is the star associated with the winds.
Pōhutukawa is the star associated with those that have passed on.
Hiwa-i-te-rangi is the star associated with granting our wishes, and realising our aspirations for the coming year
I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)
The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.
